Evan Parker Quotes

I play no instruments.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

My first engagement with any art was music.

Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

Music is something I couldn't live without. My dad was into music, he played for pleasure - guitar, piano. I started off doing jazz, singing with a lot of fabulous musicians here in London before I went to the States. And I still take piano lessons every Wednesday.

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.