Mike Katz Quotations

There's primarily dance music but also slow music or laments. This music is a very close cousin of Irish music. It has lots of energy and is very expressive.

There's lots of dance music, lots of very old traditional songs, and some we have penned ourselves.

It's the whole idea that a lot of what we play draws on traditional Scottish culture which is still relevant. It's a living culture. It's a living thread, not a dead thing.

It's quite a big issue in Europe, because lots of people are coming from Asia and Africa.

I want to be bigger than everybody else, but I wouldn't want to be so big that people can't accept it. For instance, if you come in with 30-inch-arms, even your own peers aren't going to accept that. I wouldn't want to be that way. I wouldn't want to infinitely become unreal.

You seeyou can beat a dog and it's going to do one of two things..it's gonna roll over and die or it's going to bite you and attack you. And I'm the kind of person..uh..whose the type of dog that will bite back..I wasn't going to roll over and die