To me, music is not a stunt. Music is not a joke. I take every lick of music that I've ever played very serious.
The New Lost City Ramblers are a very good comparison, actually. They really took the music seriously, and we take the music very seriously. But we don't take ourselves seriously at all.
I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.
I like to keep morale up and not take things so seriously all the time. I enjoy life and laughs but I'm serious about the music. Serious about the craft of songwriting.
The fun image is what we project onstage, because our music is dance music. But it's not what the group is about We're very serious about our music and the band and producing good quality songs.
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged 13 that I really got serious about music.
We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.
I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.
