I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.
Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
I rarely get the time to watch cricket as I am busy with recordings.
We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.
The only reason I figured out I didn't like my old records to listen was I could hear how nervous I was and how uncomfortable I was. And who would want to sit around and listen to yourself being uncomfortable?
I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost complete cycle of orchestral works by Richard Strauss with the Vienna Philharmonic.
I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.
My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.
About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.
Each record in the 'Book of Angels' series is meant to be unique in terms of the compositions.
I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from the 1920s and '30s.
I record all my speeches and have DTP prints of them. When I happened to read the speeches compiled I thought it made for an interesting read. This set to me thinking on publishing it in book form.
I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.
I've been requested by hundreds of metal bands to be part of their albums or side projects.
It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.
We played with AC/DC. There are actual recordings of us doing 'Johnny B Good' together.
The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.
So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through the Rex Foundation sponsoring recordings of various music that was being recorded over there.
Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.
Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.
The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.
