Will Chase Quotes

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

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.

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

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

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

I didn't want to be one of the Beach Boys or one of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band. I mean, we appreciated that music. But I didn't want to grow a beard to look like Roy Wood just because I liked him.

You have to have a sound that inspires you to play because, if not, you won't be able to make the sound you have work. You won't be able to make magic with it if you're not happy with it, so it's important that you at least please yourself to the level where you can just relax and be an artist.

I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

Taking your time with music is real important to me.

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

Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.

Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.