Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.
There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.
I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. For some people, anyway.
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.
Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.
I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.
It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.
PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.