Sydney Wayser Quotes

I don't intend to stop making music.

I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

I went to college to find myself. That's where I really realized I wanted to be a recording artist and started on the process of figuring out how to do that.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

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.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.