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Marc Ribot
American
Musician
About the author
I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.
Marc Ribot,
American
Musician
#Want
#Nothing
#Hate
#Nostalgia
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
Marc Ribot,
American
Musician
#Jazz
#Music
Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.
Marc Ribot,
American
Musician
#Sound
#Direction
I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.
Marc Ribot,
American
Musician
#Guitar
Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.
Marc Ribot,
American
Musician
#People
#Influence
#Fact
#Running
Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.
Marc Ribot,
American
Musician
I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.
Marc Ribot,
American
Musician
#Time
#Years
#Music
#Musicians
#Identity
#Germany