Jon Brion Quotes

There was always music playing in the house. I started singing at three, like my sisters did. When I was around four, we decided to put together a group and had so much fun with it.

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

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

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

It's a wonderful thing to play with symphony orchestras - I've played with many - but it's really special in Israel because you have so many great musicians.

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn't really writing the songs - I didn't really think I had a voice.

Playing in an orchestra is where I learned the most about music.

I'm a Katy Perry fan, and I took my kids to go see her, and it was a great show, and she really can sing, and she really can play.

I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life. As soon as I formed my first band, we played Jimmy Reed stuff. So it wasn't like I was a white kid who was learning the blues from B.B. King records.

I think it's important for a young musician to stick with a band for a while and really work with a band and stay focused.

'Geronimo' was a huge amount of work. That involved 80-piece orchestras and Indians and Tuvans and all kinds of crazy people on that thing. That's a real circus, that score.

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.

Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.