We were in touch with David Byrne a couple of weeks ago, and he's working on a new CD. He wants me to send him some rough mixes of my stuff.
We were in touch with David Byrne a couple of weeks ago, and he's working on a new CD. He wants me to send him some rough mixes of my stuff.
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
I like to arrange things and designate.
People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.
If a person would study-not extensively, just hands-on, real instruments, and study a little harmony and theory, you could take it even further.
I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
Everything is always evolving. Right now we are in a search mode. Everybody's searching. And who can say or decide what it's gonna be
I can go from one thing to another, like jazz to country western, from country western to Irish, from Irish to Operatic, and so on and so on.
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.
I talk by playing, not by words.
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
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