Arto Lindsay Quotes

Making music with people is a very intimate process.

When you're in a band, it's kind of a big thing to be friends as well.

Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one.

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me.

It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because that's where your community is.

I love to get people to sing and play together.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

We have a certain bond that we don't have with anyone else on the planet. You just have that bond, that journey when you are in a band together.

Andy Timmons is someone I've jammed with many times over the years, and we always have a great chemistry when playing together.

We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it.

It's just nice to have people around and see people actively trying to construct a community of mutual support around music.

My thing with New York was that it felt so insular. When I went to L.A., everybody I knew was a cool, amazing musician. In New York, they'd be hunkered down trying to form a band. But in L.A., guys in bands were also playing with other artists, touring with other artists, and collaborating with other artists.

Chicago's music scene is very inspiring. I like to think of it as a small community of friends who enjoy creating and inspiring each other.

One of the things that I've noticed since I've been in the band is that, as players, Lars, James, and Kirk truly enjoy making music and performing.

When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.