Spontaneous Music Quotes

We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus!.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

All of the best songs happen on a whim.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you're going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don't know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You're working out a new language, basically. New rules.

While creating Moon Shoes, I had no idea that I was doing it. The experience was extremely organic, considering that I was making music spontaneously and working alongside friends. I chose to title the project 'Moon Shoes' to give listeners a sense of unearthly freedom. I believe each song moves listeners closer to the moon and personal truth.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.

As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me that all of my favorite pieces of music weren't produced, they were performed. The producer is nearly invisible: no thumbprint other than the composition and the performers.

You just went up and started playing, the audience got into it, and it was just a great high experience. That's what I kind of invented with "Mas Tequila" in Cabo.

In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school.

Sitting around home I mostly play acoustic. I've got seven or eight guitars of various sorts, including a baritone. Sometimes at home, because a guitar is just lying around, that's the guitar I pick up rather than actually choosing something. I try to plan ahead for my laziness by leaving interesting things scattered about. If I leave a baritone guitar lying around, that's the one I'll pick up, and I'll start writing baritoney things.

If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

What's so wonderful about the street is it's organic music. No preservatives. There's no other reason to be out there except you just love music and want to play.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

Sometimes, entire songs are ready in just about five minutes.

When I was growing up, there were a few musicians who would have regular gigs at restaurants, and I always thought it was so cool and unexpected how they would spontaneously perform. Being the ambitious kid that I was, I got into it and really studied it. I was so inspired by it.

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.