David Draiman Quotes

I don't mind Ed Sheeran, but I wouldn't want to be compared to a guy that builds his song around a guitar, since we do not have a guitar in our band.

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?

I mainly like to do singer/songwriter kind of stuff.

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I'd written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It's very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost.

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

It was important for the first piece of original music that I release to have a timeless feel because that's the type of music I want to make.

Music's designed to be timeless.

I think what people call genre is just a question of orchestration. So, for instance, with Punch Brothers, you look at that band and say that's a bluegrass band, when really it's an orchestration choice.

To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.

I like to always do my best to make music catchy, so I think a very catchy melody is cool.

Just the instrumentation of the whole 'Beast Mode' made people open up and respect me in a whole other way. With Gucci, I don't use as many instruments. I don't play the piano as much because that's not really the style of music that me and Gucci have built.

The first time I saw 'Minecraft,' people wanted to have 8-bit style video game music. But I wanted to go around that and make something organic and partly electronic, partly acoustic, and see if that would be interesting.

I compose the music according to the nature of the show. 'Peter Gunn's' focus was violence so that was my key.

Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.

I'm pretty into music. Anything with music I love... I'm really big on lyrical content plus a good beat.