When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
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I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.
We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.
My audience is a huge part of my success, so I see us as a team. They send me tons of song requests every day. Some of the songs I've never heard before, but I listen to them and then pick the ones that I love.
You don't really know a song until you play it live.
I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.
Songs always get better after you start playing them live.
When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
Music is shared. It's a shared feeling; that's what music is all about. When you listen to a song with someone else, it becomes more than just a song. It defines relationships.
For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.
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