Musical Synergy Quotes

When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.

Luckily, I'm in a band with two other guys who really pull their own weight and have the skills and abilities to compensate for my weaknesses.

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

The band's a really close-knit family. We've got fantastically good friendships and relationships that have developed after all these years.

Having my son on drums has made a huge difference. I can't stress this strongly enough, in terms of the groove space and style that Joachim gave me to instinctively play what I felt in a more free way, rather than feeling constricted. That's true on record and on stage.

There was something about the chemistry of the band and we would feed off each other. It was a gang of girls unleashed.

I prefer the band situation. I prefer the relationship. Music is meant to be that way. It's meant to be interdependent.

I feel it's quite important to have a band but what's more vital is to be friends with the members of the band. If there's not a bond there, you won't be able to jam. Apart from that, it's also vital to have the same vibe.

For me, it's always easier playing with a drummer.

I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.

To me, the secret of Eddie Van Halen was Alex Van Halen, because the way Alex played was so loose and the way the two of them locked together… Those two are connected so thoroughly they might as well be one person.

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

People always want to romanticize relationships within bands. Most of these relationships are based on music first.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

I have always needed other musicians to bounce off.

That's the one part where being brothers makes a difference. It's just instinct. That's the charm of what the Everly Brothers are: two guys singing as one.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the musicians are completely in sync with each other.

Being a three piece, maybe it's easier. You only have two other guys, musically, and everything else to contend with and work with.

I instinctively felt Pancham and Gulzarbhai were meant to make music together.

The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music to places we'd never get on our own.

We sort of quickly realized every rhythm, Opetaia [Foa'i] takes the lead.