Guy Berryman Quotes

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.

I'm getting in the studio with everybody I've always wanted to work with. That's the amazing thing.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

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

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine songs that are left over, I always think, 'Where could these go? Who could they be for?'

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

I'll never forget when me and Jason Matthews wrote the line, 'Don't be a tape player hater,' in 'Country Man,' I don't think I ever laughed harder. We didn't know where we were gonna put that in a song, but we knew we had to make it into a song. I just remember laughing and being so proud of such a goofy little line.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.