Rodney Crowell Quotes

When Phil and I hit that one spot where I call it 'The Everly Brothers,' I don't know where it is. 'Cause it's not me and it's not him. It's the two of us together. I sing the lead, and so I can drift off. Then we'll come back in together and the whole thing happens again. It amazes me sometimes.

I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something.

Singing with Aaron Neville, he pulled stuff out of my voice I never could have gotten, because if he's providing XYZ, I have to put in ABC, and usually I don't have to put in ABC.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.

When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start to develop this shorthand so everybody knows where you're at and where you're going, but then again, there are always surprises. But the more people are comfortable with the material, the more free you can be with the music.

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

Yeah, well, it did earlier - but as Bobby and I have played together, our thing as a unit has become so strong that they kind of had to get in where they fit in. And most people do.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.

I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

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