I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. — John Anthony Gillis
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. — John Anthony Gillis
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill — John Anthony Gillis
I came up from growing up with a lot of catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt — John Anthony Gillis
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren’t in search of the truth. — John Anthony Gillis
I dabbled in things like howlin’ wolf, cream and led zeppelin, but when I heard son — John Anthony Gillis
I certainly wouldn’t want a song that I’d already written to be used on a commercial. — John Anthony Gillis
I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck’s a little bit bent and it’s a little bit out of tune. — John Anthony Gillis
I know that’s blasphemous when you are from detroit, but I was never a fan of motown stuff. — John Anthony Gillis
I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn’t go on stage in jeans — John Anthony Gillis
I have so much music inside me I’m just trying to stay afloat. I don’t tend to write for — John Anthony Gillis
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself – you know, love interrupts itself. — John Anthony Gillis
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. — John Anthony Gillis
I really don’t like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really — John Anthony Gillis
I was in a montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around — John Anthony Gillis
I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. — John Anthony Gillis
If you want to put out a million cds and sell them and get them played on the radio — John Anthony Gillis
With the white stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. — John Anthony Gillis
When you put something out there into the world, there’s all these words you don’t want to hear — John Anthony Gillis
I’ve always loved the word blunderbuss. I’ve always thought that it was a beautiful — John Anthony Gillis
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where — John Anthony Gillis
If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire — John Anthony Gillis
Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question — John Anthony Gillis
Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times — John Anthony Gillis
Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the white stripes I thought: — John Anthony Gillis
People aren’t buying records like they used to, so it’s nice to try to figure out a way — John Anthony Gillis
The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that’s the big revelation about, ‘oh, that’s what they’re doing.’ — John Anthony Gillis
There aren’t that many things left that haven’t already been done, especially with music. — John Anthony Gillis
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it — John Anthony Gillis
The guinness book is a very elitist organization. There’s nothing scientific about what they do. — John Anthony Gillis
The fact that we elected obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the — John Anthony Gillis
