Jason Becker Quotes

I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.

I have complete creative freedom. If I want to put a song on the album, there's no one stopping me.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

Although I didn't set out to run my own label, I found it made sense quite quickly. I can say what I want and dance to my own tune, even if sometimes it's like nobody is listening. The trade-off is you stay 'cult' and resign yourself to a very modest level of what most people would call success.

There are no rules when I'm making stuff. That's why I'm glad I'm not signed. No one's telling me I got to drop this type of single or this video.

When you make music on your own for so long, you get used to just doing whatever you want.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used for the Stones or any other kind of outfit that I'm working with. It's just nice to be the boss.

My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.

I really enjoy the creative freedom that I get when I produce my own projects.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.

I would design for anybody who gives me a free hand and who doesn't sit on my head.

Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so much you can do as an actor in a movie.

I'm just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing.

That's what I feel like my music represents - having no limits or restrictions.