Musician Quotes

“I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.”

“I think it's really important these days to be able to relate to how the music flows and be able to speak the same language as your bandmates and the producer, rather than just talking drums.”

“No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.”

“Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.”

“I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.”

“I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.”

“The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.”

“A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.”

“I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.”

“Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.”

“Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.”

“I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.”

“For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.”

“Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.”

“But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.”

“Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?”

“Never do coke with an intern ... they may not be 21”

“For me giving up is way harder than trying.”

“I never seen snakes on a plane”

“I don't have one regret.”

“Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.”

“Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.”

“I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.”

“I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.”

“The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.”