Synchronized Performance Quotes

When you improvise alone, you don't risk a lot, but doing an improvisation when you are two is even more difficult because you need to listen exactly to understand what is going to happen.

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.

The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake.

To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

The nature of Tears For Fears was there was always two of us.

When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.

When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.