Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.
There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.
Any good music must be an innovation.
Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.
I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.
I found it easier to make up songs than to learn other people's songs.
It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
I had my first band. it was kind of a progressive metal band kind of thing. I just started writing songs that required more and more challenging vocals, and I just did them. Necessity is the mother of invention, right? So I just sort of did what I had to do to make the songs sound the way I wanted them to.
In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.
The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.
Improvisation is a compositional method.
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
