Steve Forbert Quotes (18 Quotes)

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

That to me is the fun of the solo thing - it's so flexible. I can go way beyond taking requests. You just play the evening. And that's fun.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

Rodgers was incredibly heroic, ... I wanted people to discover his music and also to know more about him.

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

Jimmie was called a hillbilly singer, but that was not his attitude, ... He really had a kind of Gene Vincent attitude and kind of an Elvis attitude. He was a drinker and partied, and he had that joy for life.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

The challenge remains the songwriting, and just trying to continue with songs you feel you can sing every night, and to keep the quality of songs up.

My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman.

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.