Mick Taylor Quotes

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

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

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

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

I just want to focus on creating more music.

I hope to record the perfect album, my masterpiece, before I die.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

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

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

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 was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

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

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

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 just can't wait to continue creating music.

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like I got a little trigger happy, because it was so exciting to have production and create and put a lot in there.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

I'm constantly working on music.

I want to play guitar, piano, drums, write songs for other people. I can do punk - I can do indie - but as long as it has my voice, it'll always be my sound.

We're a band that really... It's important to us to write music and put it out there and to work together.