Mick Ralphs Quotes

I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

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.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

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.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

I want to do whatever people allow me to do with great people and have a great time doing it.

For me, you have to do as much work as you can beforehand and, once you get on stage or set, throw it out the window because you need to be collaborative. You shouldn't have too many ideas about where it goes before you get into the room with the director and other actors.

My thing is whatever comes at me, I'm there. But DJ-ing and music is my passion... I'm going to be unpredictable.

Much of what you do as an actor - it's who's around you, what's the environment, where do you fit into this thing. That's really work that's impossible to do on your own, at least for me. I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable based on what the other person gives me. I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.

If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.

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

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

I don't really have one style; I just choose what I like best each time.

Me jumping on a song with Ariana Grande is just showing versatility, you know what I'm saying?

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.