I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.
To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.
When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You can hear so many influences in it, from the blues to Bach, and it's not just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge chorus. They start off singing a cappella, almost like a Bach chorale, and the song goes into this bluesy guitar riff.
I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.
I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.
When you think about choir music, that's a cappella. You have church choir that you would sing without any instrument. I think the popular form that we have now is barbershop in the 20th century, and the collegiate movement.
A cappella music has always been around. It's such an old form.
I know a lot of people think a cappella is this cutesy, kind of novel thing.
Christmas and a cappella - what we learned really, really well is that they go extremely well together.
Uh, I think so many things have happened in the mainstream that definitely brought awareness and attention to a cappella. The 'Pitch Perfect' movies, 'The Sing-Off' - I mean, the college a cappella scene definitely has become really hot, which is definitely wonderful.
