Chris Robinson Quotes

The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.

You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They're all conversating, and we're just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it's not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it.

That's what music-making is: a dialogue.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

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

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

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.

Find someone you can jam with. That's a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get the thing started and in time, working and in the groove.

What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.

The relationship between the models and the musical performers is very important.

I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it.