Graham Parker Quotes

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

I'm influenced by a lot of different genres of music. So I'm constantly trying to rework production and make things interesting in the live show and on records.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

You're always thinking about making new music.

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

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

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

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

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

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.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

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 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.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.