Zakk Wylde Quotes

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different ideas for songs. Just workin'.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

I still love to go in the studio and write and all that.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

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 have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

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.

Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.

Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed how I approached the second record big-time.

You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.

'Never Forget You' was the first song I co-wrote.

'Who Do You Love' was kinda cool to make. I just made the beat; I was self-determined to make beats at the time.

I don't really generate material specifically for the Kingsway Music Library. It's just a product of the way I work.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

I've been sort of writing sketches for songs on my own forever and putting them down on cassette tapes. Yet for years and years and years, my main songwriting outlet was as a member of Sonic Youth, and for most of our time together, our best songs were written in a group setting, where the four of us were getting together in a room.

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.