Musical Network Quotes

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.

I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the world. That's no exaggeration. I have a South African band, an Australian band, Swedish bands, English bands, American bands. They're all notable musicians, too.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

I've played with so many people that I never really noticed that I was playing with so many people until after it was compiled on the Internet. I just kept going. I haven't even heard half the records I've played on, to tell you the truth.

Well, my musicians are my friends.

Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.

A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.

Big Red Machine is really a community effort: I guess it involves almost 30 musicians. It does come out of our friendship, but it's really something that is deeply collaborative.

It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.

I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places and new things and this feeling of being at home wherever you go because that's where your community is.

You can't make music on your own for your whole life.