Jordan Rudess Quotes (11 Quotes)

It was a little hard for me at first I remember coming in with a ton of ideas, and I wanted to present them all, and they wanted to hear them, but at the same time, they almost didn't want to hear them. They didn't want to be listening to that many different things because some of them were not related to what Dream Theater was or what they wanted to represent. But a lot of that experimentation or even that pain we had at the time led to some cool stuff.

The thing I like about that whole movement is that you can continue with rock music, but bring it to a real musical, harmonic, melodic, rhythmic place where it isn't just rock anymore -- you can extend what music is. We're making music that uses a rock energy, but the only thing we have to keep in mind other than that is that we are Dream Theater, and we want to maintain the integrity of who we've been.

Everybody brings something to the table, and we don't pretend not to have other influences, ... For instance, with the big title track -- which I'm very proud of and think is one of Dream Theater's best compositions -- I dug pretty deep into my background in Genesis and Yes and wanted to bring some of those flavors forward.

We had just come off of making 2003's 'Train of Thought,' which was a very heavy album,

All of the guys love to take serious topics and go for it we're not writing a whole lot of love songs. With 'Sacrificed Sons,' we had some sensitivity there about how we'd present it. I remember there was a lot of discussion about the kind of words that w

Thirty years later, I still play my Moog synthesizers and they continue to blow my mind. He was a really kind and wonderful guy. He changed so many people's lives.

When you get down to it, that's what we love. But each album we make is different because some discs are more art-rock and some are heavier.

I had done two albums with the Liquid Tension Experiment, and both were interesting compared to Dream Theater, because with those we didn't have the window or the parameters of what Dream Theater is,

I know Dream Theater fans can be extremely possessive of this group. There were some fans that liked me joining, and I'm sure there were some who wanted to run screaming into the night.

Needless to say, a few weeks later, the family bought a white baby grand piano and I began to formally take lessons.

Those two Liquid Tension albums introduced me to Dream Theater fans. And it helped ease my joining a bit.