Martin Garrix Quotes

The Kingsway Music Library was sort of a byproduct of all the creation I was doing. As creators, we kind of just create blindly sometimes and I couldn't physically see every idea through, so I created this ecosystem where I made the ideas available to people to download, to sample and to put their own twist on it.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

I've learned a lot from Dave Stewart; he's a serial collaborator. He's co-written songs with more people than anybody I know - like the most incredible people too.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.

To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.

I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

When I'm in the studio with a writer, I don't mind for them to take the lead and show me something new.

With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.

I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

24 hours a day, I'm thinking about what we can do with this artist, what I can do myself over here, and how we can tie it all together.

So much of inspiration comes from collaboration with other musicians.

I get really excited about collaborating because by the end of the day you have something that you never thought you'd have. I was really happy about writing "Bad News" and a bunch of other stuff on the record that came out so well.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.