Reece Thompson Quotes

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.

When I did my solo album, I put on a song that I'd planned for Toto that never made an album constructed from a great drum track with Jeff and a bass track with Mike and the guys loved it.

If I ever do meet John Mayer and we end up in the studio, hopefully he'll bring the guitar, and I'll make a beat to it or something.

In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the rest of the band help us finish it.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

I write my music.

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.