Joey Ramone Quotes

Find someone you can jam with. That's a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get the thing started and in time, working and in the groove.

When I sing with Loaded, I can't move at all. I'm playing guitar, and I'm singing.

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.

I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.

In 'Boondien' I worked with a band where everyone had their own instrument to play.

I didn't always enjoy playing music with the Trees.

I love to sing and make music because it makes me feel good.

The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.

The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.