Keren Woodward Quotes

I don't use old music.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so beautiful. Frank Sinatra, the Pied Pipers, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday. That's when popular music had deeper values, to me. This was music that was selling millions of records.

I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

I have been told that my voice is very suited to oldies albums.

I loved both [Bob] Seger and the Eagles, knowing why they didn't play some of the songs I wanted to hear. But at the same time, they covered all the big bases, and the stuff that most people had heard. But they definitely had a bunch of album cuts that I wanted to hear that they didn't get around to.

I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

I've done 'Back in the Saddle Again' so darn long, I could go to sleep and sing it.

As much as only playing clubs can become tedious, performing in huge venues can also become off-putting. To go from one to the other feels great. And sometimes playing clubs can be even more stressful, because you really have to think about what you're going to tell the audience between songs.

I've spent a long time learning my way around a stage as an actor, but this I don't know as well. Humbly, I'm excited to get with a band and perform regularly as an artist and see what I can learn and how I can grow in that space.

I don't really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I'm like an old person.

'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular.

I love swing, jazz, blues, standards. I love the American songbook, Gershwin, Berlin. It's all that. So I'm born in the wrong era and I just don't fit into the 21st century at all.

I've seen bands come out and begin their concerts with these long, slow, boring songs. Are they kidding, or what?

My musical taste is somewhat dated - I mean, freeze frame, go back 60 years, and you're in my comfort zone.

I think there's an attitude these days that you can go straight from a studio to the stage, and it isn't really like that. But playing live was the most important thing for me at the start because whenever I recorded something, it didn't sound right; I didn't like how my voice sounded. It was just raw.

I get excited about a crowd that likes our kind of music.

If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.

I like a lot of older, '60s or '70s-style songwriting.

Monster Mash' is one of those great, throwback Halloween songs.

Normally, when I write the setlist for a Dream Theater show, I'll change it up every night, and we can basically play whatever we want.