Session Work Quotes

If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.

I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet.

I did more sessions than I remember doing. There were a lot of things in the Seventies that I played on that people keep reminding me about.

I wouldn't mind working with Queens of the Stone Age, doing some guitar stuff on that. Even Arctic Monkeys. I'd like to do be a bit of guitar with them guys. I'll play on anyone's record to be honest with you.

I never pushed to be a star. I didn't want to. I had my home, my family. Session work let you do the music and leave.

Session work is not a steady thing at all. You do eight of them in one week and then go three months without any. That's the way it really is.

A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.

I just pretty much go to class, do my work, and go to my dorm and make beats. Or I pull up to a session. That's pretty much my day-to-day.

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.

I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

I did loads of sessions with Andrew Oldham.

The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.