Elvis Presley Quotes

I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

I organise jam sessions every month. We have an open session, so everyone knows about it, and we can get as many as 30 people showing up at the house. Somebody will play a tune, and everyone will pick up on it. My best friends are all musicians.

Jamming with other people will create energy and excitement that you can feed off, and which will help push you to do things you'd never dream of doing by yourself.

I've always worked with other people. As a musician, it's your role to basically share with other people.

The way I like to play, it really helps when I have more people around me to combine with.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

I don't like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

I'm not the most confident dancer, to be honest. Dancing on film was very difficult for me because you can see it after it's been done.

Taking a solo on a tune is always a little bit scary.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I tell my wife when she's listening to my songs that the slightest hint of whether she likes it or not puts the pressure on me.

I've heard people say, 'There are no bad audiences,' but that's just not true. There are people who just shouldn't be together in a room, who produce a really bad audience.

When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, 'Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.' So, you show up on set, and you don't know, 'Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?'

When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?'

Pressure makes me produce. Kills most guys. Mortifies 'em.

Maybe I was intimidated by my father's talent and success.

I love performing with a band way more than a track, just because it gets a whole new kind of vibe going and gets the energy up. You actually get to play off of the other people that are around you.

In 'Heart of Gold' at one point, there were 23 players on the stage with him. And part of what's magic about Neil is the way he interacts with the other musicians.

Play seems to be one of the first activities inhibited by the presence of an observer until a group becomes well habituated. For this reason, I consider it more common than previously thought.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

I had to act with a wolf, which made me very uncomfortable! It still does. I think about it all the time!

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

Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.