Neneh Cherry Quotes

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

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.

Making music is fantastic.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I'm just inspired by music.

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

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

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

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 don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

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

I think everyone should feel like they can make music, they can create music.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

I have a room dedicated to music and recording. I go there first thing in the morning and just before I go to bed. And it has a window to my street, so I can watch all the crazies walking by.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!