Jam Session Quotes

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

I just want to play music with a band, live.

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

I've had the honor of sitting in with the Allmans at their Beacon shows a couple of times, and it just doesn't get better than that.

When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.

It's great fun to play with a really good band.

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

I remember hanging out at Starbucks. There were these older guys who would sit around and play Crosby, Stills & Nash songs. I was just so in love with music. I would just go hang out with them, and I would try to sing and harmonize with them. I didn't even know the songs.

I don't just sit around and play 'Africa' in my house.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

I got to jam with Prince, which is amazing.

I used to jam with Steve Marriott of the Small Faces.

When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.

It's always fun to play songs by somebody else.

The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.

I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.

The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.

I can just be one of those guys that used in the mix, playing 4 or 5 if we play smaller.

I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

I've always loved to play live.

I feel like I'm playing the washboard more than the guitar.

We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.

Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.

I'm always looking for people to play the songs to.