Neal Brennan Quotes

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Good music is good music.

A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.

My first album was very eclectic and very soft as a vocal expression.

We love music, and when it's good we flip. And we want to get to the core of why it's good.

People tend to put too much focus on the lyrics. It's not the be-all and end-all of our songs.

I think a lot of our songs are good.

There is always space for good music.

I privilege the music over the lyrics.

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

As long as it's good music. I love all music. It's got to be constructed properly.

A good song is a good song.

I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out of a collection of songs to be able to understand what the musician is doing.

It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra.

For me, honest critique is not all about your feelings and your ear. Honest critique is sitting down with an album that you may not put on in your spare time, and really digging into that album, so you can talk about the beat selection.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

It doesn't take me long to write songs.