If there's a common thread running through all the H.O.R.D.E. bands, it's the emphasis on live improvisational music. — John Popper Copy Share Image
A song like 'Once You Wake Up,' is about that realization... about finally wanting to live. — John Popper Copy Share Image
Try to own the songs you write because you could get lucky, but you are ultimately going to have to perform your… — John Popper Copy Share Image
There are plenty of very different sounding bands that could be H.O.R.D.E. bands. — John Popper Copy Share Image
Working with Secondhand Serenade, I just felt like a songwriter, you know, working with another songwriter. — John Popper Copy Share Image
I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it. — John Popper Copy Share Image
Throughout history, musicians have never counted on intellectual property really getting them rich. — John Popper Copy Share Image
Usually a song is supposed to be between three and four minutes; twenty minutes is a little bit long. — John Popper Copy Share Image
If you can play something sincerely, then everyone puts themselves in that experience and says, 'I know what they mean,' even if… — John Popper Copy Share Image
For those of us who have had the good fortune of a career in music, we feel an obligation to speak out… — John Popper Copy Share Image
The good bands take people on a journey with them; You look at the Beach Boys and the Beatles and you see… — John Popper Copy Share Image
The first record i ever bought was the Blues Brothers' 'Briefcase Full of Blues.' I wanted to get into comedy, so I… — John Popper Copy Share Image
When you're in the studio, you have to get the bare-bones, crystallized version of the song you've written. That's the blueprint for… — John Popper Copy Share Image
I try to play like Jimi Hendrix is playing. Forget what instrument you're playing, forget the colloquialisms, and Just get into what… — John Popper Copy Share Image
When you're at a concert and you hear someone improvise well, that's special; it puts you in the moment and takes you someplace. To… — John Popper Copy Share Image
You know, technology caught up with precisely what was wrong with the way that I used food. — John Popper Copy Share Image
The idea is that we're always going to have a good live show, and we love to pay our music and write well. — John Popper Copy Share Image
If you're going to be creative, you ultimately have to be in different ways because if you're going to be in the same ways,… — John Popper Copy Share Image
Throughout history, musicians have never counted on intellectual property really getting them rich. — John Popper Copy Share Image
For those of us who have had the good fortune of a career in music, we feel an obligation to speak out for the… — John Popper Copy Share Image
Working with Secondhand Serenade, I just felt like a songwriter, you know, working with another songwriter. — John Popper Copy Share Image
You have a right to love firearms. And you also have a right to hate them. — John Popper Copy Share Image
There are plenty of very different sounding bands that could be H.O.R.D.E. bands. — John Popper Copy Share Image
We don't sound like a Mississippi Delta band, but we play what we mean, and that's the spirit of the blues. — John Popper Copy Share Image
Yeah, some people said I tried to rip off Cat Stevens and Stevie Wonder. Oh, well. I've always admired those guys. But for me,… — John Popper Copy Share Image
