Joshua Roman Quotes

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

That's all I ever do, just try and do the best I can and cater to the song, cater to the music.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

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

I think musically.

I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.