Zedd Quotes

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

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.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

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

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like I got a little trigger happy, because it was so exciting to have production and create and put a lot in there.

When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

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.