Les Claypool Quotes

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I love celebrating music in different and unique ways.

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.

Hopefully I'm bringing to rock n' roll the kind of spontaneity that I love, and always believed rock and roll stands for.

I just want to play music with a band, live.

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

It's real primal; I just like playing music.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.