Don Felder Quotes

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

I can do R&B, pop, gospel... whatever genre of music that's out.

I got a reputation for being 'eclectic' or some damn thing like that, but to me, the different kinds of music I play are all the same stuff - good time music - and it is the only stuff I can do.

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

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

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.