All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.
The music business used to be filled with people who love music.
You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.
That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
Be in Nashville if you want to be in country music, because everybody that can help you is here.
I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.
They're hard to come by, good producers.
Most people involved in the music business, and it's probably not just the music business... aren't necessarily people that I like.
The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.
