My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.
Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
Sonically, musicians always go above and beyond in our efforts to disrupt radio. It's always about being different. Our radio is never conventional anyway.
Our band was different. We were still playing rock 'n' roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but an organ and a saxophone.
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the groups.
Ah, it's awesome learning about theater, but it's a completely different musical landscape from rock and roll.
If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.
I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music's difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.
I remember my uncle, who was a jazz pianist, when we did Deep Purple 'In Rock,' he ran from the room screaming, holding his ears: 'I can't hear anything. I can't hear any instruments.' And I was rubbing my hands going, 'Great.'
Our sound is nothing like the Doors.
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.
Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.
When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
At The Drive In came out in a period of time when Stereophonics and Limp Bizkit were huge. And there was this dark grey void - I'm not saying we filled it - but we were just a different colour at the time.
I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
'Too Young to Fall in Love' is an earlier cut from Motley Crue, but it's one of their best. I'm so drastically different as an artist from their sound, but the challenge of making it my own is what makes doing a cover song fun.
