Joey Jordison Quotes

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

Sometimes a song can be born in few minutes, if the feeling is right, some other times it can take days.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

I've got so many melodies in my head.

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.