Anoushka Shankar Quotes

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

Keith Richards has some sort of quote that says 'it takes two people to write a song,' and I'm of that school of thought, too.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

I have always needed other musicians to bounce off.

Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have somebody who's done it all to just talk to. And we write songs together.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I feel that when Chad is in the room, I can tap into this other thing where music comes from. I don't know. It's just this really magical, special connection and relationship.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'

When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.