The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges. . . and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.
When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.
It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.
"National Anthem" was just a funny idea I'd been knocking about. I initially thought about a beloved celebrity having to do that - and then I watched an episode of 24. In my head, I was writing almost a parody of a 24-style president woken in the middle of the night with a crisis. It seemed more interesting to play it ultrastraight and to have the viewer's initial reaction be one of laughter and disbelief - and just have the whole thing become progressively more uncomfortable.
The most wonderful and amazing people are those, who are true to themselves.
Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles. ' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'