Joseph Jarman Quotes

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

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

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

You can work on music a few lifetimes.

In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.

I really know how to sing and create and put things together that entertain... be it controversially or be it from music or acting.

I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.

I'm constantly working on music.

I want to play guitar, piano, drums, write songs for other people. I can do punk - I can do indie - but as long as it has my voice, it'll always be my sound.

I'm always working on new music.

We're a band that really... It's important to us to write music and put it out there and to work together.

I love writing and producing but I don't think a lot of people know my artist stuff.

I like to make glamorously informed songs for glamorously intelligent people.

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

I love making music, and performing, that will always be there.