Brad Paisley Quotes

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

You're always thinking about making new music.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.