Don Felder Quotes

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where I made my first proper song. I've always loved creative writing, so I had done that as well.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

I'm always working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different ideas for songs. Just workin'.

I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.

When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.