19 Quotes by John Otto

We knew we wanted to take the strong points of our groove and emphasize them as well, and we knew we wanted to just totally experiment.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

We've got many different sides of music to us.

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.

When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.