Bars Quote by John Abercrombie

My dad used to do a lot of music when he was young, so he had an 8-track MiniDisc recorder, and when he realized…

— Shura

“In so far as I listen with interest to a record, it’s usually to figure out how it was arrived at. The musical end…

— Derek Bailey

Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into…

— Floor Jansen

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like…

— Steve Forbert

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments…

— Terry Riley

I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done,…

— Scott Bakula

Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as…

— Winston Marshall

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

— Paul Weller

You have to take from each artist what works for you, and then create your own sound. You put different combinations in the mix…

— Al B. Sure

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when I say…

— DJ Spooky

We put our music together, piece by piece, like a jigsaw puzzle.

— Ronnie Van Zant