Eric Church Quotes

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

One thing with Backstreet Boys, we never try to rush out an album. We always try to make quality music that can stand the test of time.

To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists.

It's not like what I do, how I write, changes depending on the nature of the project. I give each story my all, regardless of if there are a few thousand people reading it or a few hundred thousand.

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