Dave Navarro Quotes

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

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

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

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

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

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

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.

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.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.

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

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

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.

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.

I'm always working on music.