Bill Mumy Quotes

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.

I still love playing live, and I love doing records, but writing songs is my main thing.

I'm always working on music.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.

I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

I'd rather make music than tour.

I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.