Musical Endurance Quotes

Although he loved performing live, and was great at it - Jeff was as solid on stage, as he was in the studio - performing for two hours at a stretch really took a physical toll. It was very hard on him.

The artists with lyrical content and who say something seem to outlast the fad rappers - I always noticed that.

I like to make songs that are gonna be here for a long time, not for five months that they play on the radio.

I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.

Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

When we're ready to do the dress rehearsal, we'll rehearse in the dark. No lights. The reason why I do that is because I don't want the band to rely on me for anything. 'Cause anything can happen - I might stop singing or unplug the mic, just so everybody knows: Keep going, no matter what.

We've always prided ourselves on making a record that we want to feel proud of, ones that are hopefully timeless so they can be around for a long time.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I'm a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

Especially in repetitive music, to make a long piece of music you have to be extremely skilled in your sleight of hand. Just to make long form music it's very difficult and you really have to consider what you're putting someone through.

If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

The best thing that can happen is that a song you've written will live in the world so people can hear it.

If people had told me that I would have the stamina to conduct 'Ring Cycles,' I would have been amazed. I still am.

I believe my songs are strong enough to stand on their own - even way back then when they were recorded badly and minimally.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

I've played the Greek classics; I've played the English classics. I promise you, I'm not complacent, because I hope to be playing all sorts of stuff that I've never played before while the mind - and the body - still functions.

One thing I'm big on is believing in giving an album time. I'll say you'll have to give an album three years before you can call it a classic. If you can't listen to it three years later then it's not really a classic.

One indisputable fact is that whatever has happened to, and with, the Allman Brothers Band, we've persevered.