Amit Bhatia Quotes

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

I always loved singing. No matter where I was, I would just make up my own stuff.

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself - it's a little bit like singing, it's a little bit like speaking.

I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.

I love improvising.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I don't really have one style; I just choose what I like best each time.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.