To Keep Creating You Have To Be

Maybe You Play A Melody Twice. You Play It Once Like You Like It, And Some Parts That You Don't Like You Can Just Switch. An Eight-bar Motive - You Can Just Take It And Put It In The Front Or Back Or Something Like That. It Can Save You 50 Or 60 Or 70,000 Dollars, A Drum Machine. That's Why Everybody Uses It.

That Was My Gift . . . Having The Ability To Put Certain Guys Together That Would Create A Chemistry And Then Letting Them Go; Letting Them Play What They Knew, And Above It.

See, If You Put A Musician In A Place Where He Has To Do Something Different From What He Does All The Time, Then He Can Do That - But He's Got To Think Differently In Order To Do It. He's Got To Play Above What He Knows - Far Above It. I've Always Told The Musicians In My Band To Play What They Know And Then Play Above That. Because Then Anything Can Happen, And That's Where Great Art And Music Happens.

As Long As I've Been Playing, They Never Say I Done Anything. They Always Say That Some White Guy Did It.

It's Like Swimmin' Without Warmin' Up, Yuo Know What I Mean? So [cackles] We Use The Drum Machine, And We Take It Out.