Scott Storch Quotes

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

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 think it's down to our songs - we've always made sure every song on every album works.

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.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

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

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

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.

I write my music.

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.

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.

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

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

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

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.