John Gourley Quotes

I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music.

I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them or not.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself.

I see a parallel industry for independent music blooming alongside film music.

I always knew I wanted to create original material, and after having meetings with all sorts of record labels, I decided that Sony was the right place to do it. They knew what I wanted to make and gave me the freedom to express myself.

I write other people songs. Recirculate it. It's the music business.

So, my records really didn't sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and that turned into a gold mine.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

That's the cool thing, when I get to work with people I love. The biggest has probably been Kris Kristofferson on 'Bloodworth.'