Patti Smith Quotes

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

Composers are very individual creatures.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

Great music is great music, period.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Any good music must be an innovation.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

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.'

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.