"For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawb…"

"Performance has remained the ideal locus of rock authenticity long after it has ceased to be the real origin of rock …"

"When I tell people I’m a trumpet soloist, there are three kinds of response I usually get: “Wow, what a great job!”, …"

"I believe the emergence and explosion of jazz in the last century is one of the pinnacles of human achievement."

"You have to let music take you over, put ego aside, be a clean conductor – in the electrical sense."

"A fugue is like a canon, in that it is usually based on one theme which gets played in different voices and different…"

"To give an idea of how extraordinary a six-part fugue is, in the entire Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, containing for…"

"As legendary bands in the scene continued to mature musically and grow away from the genres that they became known fo…"

"At this point in heavy-music history, the breakdown is as much a building block of metal as the thrash gallop, the bl…"

"The 1970s was arguably the single decade of the 20th century when recorded music was most central to culture. There w…"