Curt Smith Quotes

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff.

I never thought of us as a punk band, a metal band, or a new wave band. Just as a band band.

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough.

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.

I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'

I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

I think we're just one of those bands that we know what we do best.

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is the music of Bach or someone else.

I didn't want to be one of the Beach Boys or one of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band. I mean, we appreciated that music. But I didn't want to grow a beard to look like Roy Wood just because I liked him.

We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3.

An album represents an artist or a band or a group of musicians at any given moment in time. You just produce the music that you feel good about and hope that the audience shows some interest in it.

I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it.

I've only ever been in bands where I can be the punk rock guitar player in the band because that's all I want to do. I don't even know if I could do anything else.