Charlie Hunter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
-- Charlie Hunter

#Music #Sound #Trios
Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.
-- Charlie Hunter

#Music #Thinking #Style
That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?
-- Charlie Hunter

#Thinking #Issues #Focus
So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
-- Charlie Hunter

#Player #Space #Magic
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
-- Charlie Hunter

#Want #Jazz #Kind
But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.
-- Charlie Hunter

#Player #Guitar #Stuff
I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.
-- Charlie Hunter

#White #Stripes #Records
I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.
-- Charlie Hunter

#Would Be #Jam #Band
I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.
-- Charlie Hunter

#Play #Fickle #World

I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.
Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.
Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.

Charlie Hunter famous quotes

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