Jello Biafra Quotes

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

I just like a beat that grabs me. And then I'll come up with a concept after. I like to take my time with music.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I don't intend to stop making music.

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

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

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

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

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.