John Prine Quotes

The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one.

When Guru Randhawa and I sang, people really liked our chemistry.

I like the continuity of singing my lines together instead of going line by line.

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

I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone.

I always sang harmony with my family growing up.

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.

I've been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it's a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave and very creative, and they're some of my closest friends.

I love to get people to sing and play together.

I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician.

The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

Don and I are infamous for our split, but we're closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love.

My dream duet would be with Dolly Parton!

I like to sing with people, whether they're good or not.

I find there is room in music to talk with music. It may expand ways people can participate with music. It doesn't sound hokey or like some kind of voice-over.

To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity.

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.

When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.