Quotes by Mike Gordon

Mike Gordon

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Collaborators

Singer-songwriters

Songwriting

Actually, it’s great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

Interesting

Play

Trying

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there’s a good chance that the record deal won’t change anything.

Get Better

Long

Records

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

Built

Cabinets

Speakers

I don’t really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I’m not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am – I don’t listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

Grateful

Player

Typical

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don’t know how to go about doing it. Usually it’s the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

Cutting

Song

Writing

I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere.

Jam

Song

Two

I haven’t written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I’ve only written a handful.

Able

Enough

Song

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

Cymbals

Guitar

Saxophone

I’m always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I’ll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don’t really think that’s the direction I would want to go.

Mixing

Technology

Thinking

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Able

Bass

Built

Cabinets

Collaborators

Country

Couple

Cutting

Cymbals

Dating

Doe

Dream

Enough

Eye

Get Better

Girlfriend

Grandmother

Grateful

Guitar

Guy

Important

Interesting

Jam

Long

Mixing

Nice

Opportunity

Order

Pain

People

Play

Player

Poetic

Records

Satisfied

Saxophone

Singer-songwriters

Song

Songwriting

Speakers

Technology

Thinking

Trying

Two

Typical

Writing

Written

Years

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Quotes by Mike Gordon

Mike Gordon

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Actually, it’s great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there’s a good chance that the record deal won’t change anything.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

I don’t really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I’m not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am – I don’t listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don’t know how to go about doing it. Usually it’s the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere.

I haven’t written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I’ve only written a handful.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

I’m always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I’ll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don’t really think that’s the direction I would want to go.

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