Stacie Orrico Quotes

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music.

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.

Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm just taking the music that comes to me and trying to make it as beautiful as I can. You can't really predict or control how people will receive that music.

Just stick to what you feel you sing best at, no matter what it is.

Record companies tell me to play something more commercial, but I don't want to do anything else.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find your concepts and your way for painting your musical picture.

I can spend hours and hours and days and days in the studio changing the music, because I love that.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

All of my solos are blues based. Even though a lot of my songs get into pop, I wind up going back to the blues. Trying to escape it is like trying to run from the devil.

I'd love to do the straight music thing, but that's kind of against our mission, which is to rebel against the serious singer-songwriter mentality.

I tell people, 'I don't make music, I make worlds.'

I made a conscious decision when I was recording 'Acoustic Soul' to - and this is one of my mantras - follow the music and let the chips fall where they may.