Waylon Jennings Quotes

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I don't intend to stop making music.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

I've become a workaholic. When the shows slow down and there's no press and I can get my time to myself in the studio with my music, I get into this zone, man. I enter this incredible space where I'm just making music. And I feel like I can work with anybody - with Elton John, with Hanson - and I can make something incredible.

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.