Josh Klinghoffer Quotes

I love to sing with different people.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.

The life I love is making music with my friends.

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.

Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

Small clubs aren't as lucrative, but spiritually, they're my favorite places to play. It's a homey kind of thing. I refer to it as the Church of What's Happening Now.

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

In church, the music is for everyone. People are singing off tune, loud; they're not ashamed - it's for their healing. That's kind of just what I strive for, that feeling.

I love that music will bring people together, because the world is full of negativity.

As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music.

I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love and having a good time.

Music is a tool that brings people together.

Music is to give, share.

I had always been aware of George's importance to me, of the bond of friendship and of the sparkle and light, effervescence and electricity that suffused the music we made.

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.

Chamber music - a conversation between friends.