Synyster Gates Quotes

When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it has to be a little more fleshed out as a song. And then where it goes is more collaborative, obviously; it's more political possibly, certainly more a conscious process than a subconscious process, which the painting can be.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

We're a band that really... It's important to us to write music and put it out there and to work together.

When it comes to song creation, I throw in my ideas and have it discussed with the producer. The song gets its own characteristic as new ideas are incorporated.

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what we can work with.

A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

I just want to keep writing music.

I've had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.

I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.

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

I'm in the studio for hours in that tiny little box, and really, the performing part is what I'm most excited about.

By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situation.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I like to collaborate on my music. The creative process is fun, and you get a lot of ideas from having discussions about it. Ultimately, the final decision is mine.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.