Backwards Quote by Tim Kinsella

It's so refreshing to just play straight-ahead music with lots of twists.

— Mike Portnoy

It's fun to be able to revisit a song and do something that doesn't really illustrate the song but works tangentially or runs parallel…

— Iron & Wine

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like…

— Chick Corea

If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that…

— Nate Ruess

Even if it's the same song, making our performances different, new or more fun is the greatest challenge.

— Kim Tae-hyung

A frustration that I've had recently is that a lot of songs that I listen to draw on scenarios that aren't very realistic, so…

— Louis Tomlinson

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

— Chris Cornell

No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song…

— Dr. Dre

I'll listen to a song so much that ideas start to form out of daydreaming. It's as if I'm reverse-scoring the track and building…

— Hiro Murai

There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous…

— RaeLynn

I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my…

— Jamie Hince

One of the fun things about playing live is watching the audience sing the songs back to us.

— Tom Dumont