Browsing: Berklee College of Music

Tim Carman Pays Homage to His Teacher, Mentor & Legendary Drummer Bob Gullotti in “Blues for Bob”

“Hopefully the music will keep the listener engaged throughout with the diversity of instruments; strings, Gospel choir, horns, and a lot of piano.” – Jared Feinman

“Don’t be afraid to write crap, because crap is the best fertilizer. The more crap that you write the more likely you’ll grow something amazing.” – Pat Pattison

“Over the past twenty years, the whole economics of being a songwriter has completely changed. If you were to take what you normally make today and divide it by ninety-one; that is what happened to the songwriters’ royalty rate as the consumer marketplace shifted from physical goods like albums to the streaming model. That is drastic.” – Amanda Colleen Williams

“I have written a lot of jingles, but one of the things I like best is that I wrote the theme to ‘This Old House’ that ran for fifteen years.”

“I think you have to argue as a school founded on Jazz, Jazz was founded on Blues.”