Kevin Morby Quotes

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.

To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

That gets me upset- you're jamming along, checking out the crowd and having a good time, and then your equipment goes down. You can't just stop the show and say, 'Oh, Jeff's got a guitar problem.'

I like bringing keyboards and stuff on stage.

In sixth grade I had a band called The Blueberry Waterfall. I had borrowed a guy's Fender Jaguar and Boss Tone Fuzz, which you plugged straight into a Blackface Twin. It was a little power trio - we were actually pretty good for our age.

I didn't think rap was me. But I was shy to sing in front of people. It'd be so off because I was shy.

I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.

For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.

It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing.

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.

Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

In the limelight I play it off fine, but I can't handle it when I turn off my night-light.

I was so nervous every night that I had to really focus and keep myself in that moment so that I would not forget the words. I was really present for every song.

You try to play the song better than you had before.