Tommy Bolin Quotes

Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.

It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

You have 'listeners' ears' when you're just starting out, and your 'listeners' ears' tell you what will work. You lose those ears later, when you break songs down into production elements too much.

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

You can tune your guitar funky, and something's gonna come out. There's no secret to it - either you got it, or you don't.

I don't choose the songs; the songs choose me.

Usually, the song will tell me who it belongs to. It seems clear to me who would do a good job with it, who it suits.

It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.

I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.

It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.

I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, 'Want to come out to play?' and I go.