I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.
John DieterichI think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.
John DieterichThat's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.
John DieterichWhen I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me.
John Dieterich