John Lydon Quotes

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

I love making music, though. I love playing.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I think, with production, I pay very close attention. 'Cause that's my favorite thing in music. That's the whole drive. That's the reason.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

I first got interested in DJing when I was a little kid. I just love music... Music's my passion; it's always been my whole life.

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

My tools are musicians, effects, things like that.