Jamming Quotes

• A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Sounds
  • Cymbals
  • Band Situation

• There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Know
  • Road
  • Jamming

• I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Time
  • Songs
  • Riffs

• I also collaborate a lot with friends, like Darrell Smith, or Carl Burnett, or Paul Brown, my co-producer. Quite often it’s a jamming thing; we’ll just sort of hang, and come up with ideas, and if it’s something we like, we’ll hack away at it.

  

  Boney James
  • Friends
  • Ideas
  • Collaborate

• Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Experience
  • Enjoy
  • Jamming

• Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind.

  

  Billy Squier
  • Mind
  • Lights
  • Headlines

• That's one of the cool things about going to local bars: seeing what people are doing and jamming with them. I'm a huge advocate of jamming with others; you learn a lot. So I love to go and do that - even if people wipe the stage up with you.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Bars
  • Advocate
  • Jamming

• Motley never once sat down and said, 'Well, the music scene's changing. We need to make this record a little darker or heavier musically or lyrically.' It was just four guys sitting in a room like a bunch of 16-year-olds in a garage and jamming on riffs.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Garage
  • Jamming
  • Music Scene

• You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Freedom
  • Songs
  • Jamming

• It never occurred to me that I'd be a musician. I was just drunk on music, jamming with friends, chilling out with lot of music around.

  

  Mohit Chauhan
  • Musician
  • Jamming
  • Chilling

• I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Brains
  • Smarter
  • Jamming

• I make sounds while all these young musicians make jam, I make good sounds but they are always jamming, they don’t make good sound, they just jam.

  

  Majek Fashek
  • Musicians
  • Sounds
  • Jamming

• An element I love about the blues is jamming with other musicians.

  

  Gary Hoey
  • Musicians
  • Element
  • Jamming

• I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

  

  Ray Conniff
  • People
  • Dancing
  • Having