Quotes By Les Claypool

I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

I think Phish will come back. I just think it's time for a breather.