Eric Morecambe Quotes

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

I try not to do anything by formula.

I never learned to cook, so I've got no rules. I'll put things together just because I think they belong together.

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.

I like to improvise.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

See, there were certain rules I'd always used, and people like Trane, they would break those rules.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

It struck me that it would be fun to just play stuff with Hauschka. Not even have a project in mind, but just get together and make up some music and see what came out.

If you're always playing the correct notes, there's something wrong - you're not searching; you're not reaching for anything.

A lot of improvisation and freedom went into 'Pinata.'

All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.

One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.