Rodney Crowell Quotes

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

I would join a band, learn from that band and be committed and passionate and bring my thing to the band. Then, when I felt like we were going to repeat ourselves, and I needed to learn more, I would go somewhere else.

Any time I get a chance to work with artists that make me inspired and learn new stuff about music - every chance I get, I'll take.

The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music to places we'd never get on our own.

I wouldn't be one-third of the player I am today if it wasn't for Avenged. They're an inspiring group of guys, and I'm constantly challenged to write things beyond my ability and then figure out how to play them.

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.

A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away.

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.

Working with Prince, it's kind of like he's opened up this whole new world, especially with the horn players. And I'm like, 'Man, only if I had strings on this album, too.' And I'm like, 'I wish I had an orchestra.' So I just, you know - I just wonder what's next, you know. I just want to constantly push myself for more.

We're not complete prodigies musically and as a band together it takes more and more work to find something new and special.

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

My musical journey with A. R. Rahman is filled with personal milestones and realisations.

My playground as a musician is growing.

As long as I'm still growing as a musician, it keeps me inspired.

I'm going to keep evolving and evolving and showing people that progression is key when it comes to music.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound.

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?'

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.