Lisa Loeb Quotes

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

Fleet Foxes are a really talented band. They make beautiful music.

When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are strong even without the bells and whistles.

The music has always been the first and foremost element in our career.

I privilege the music over the lyrics.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

My first album is playful.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.

Folk is bare bones music.

I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.