Glenn Tipton Quotes

In the band Semi-Precious Weapons, I got to sing, wear, and say exactly what I wanted for ten years.

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.

I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

When I go with different producers, and they've thought about what they want to do, I think they feel a little bit more free, because they know almost any sound will work on my record if we pull it together properly - so they don't feel so limited.

I didn't leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.

I just don't let music genres define me.

When I can make music and don't have to think about anyone else's ideas or voice - when I'm making something that only I can make - it feels good. It's nice when you can find a sound that only you can make. No one else can make 'Cosmogramma.' No one else can make 'Until the Quiet Comes.'

It's weird talking about the album as a living being with its own thoughts and direction, especially if you're the one creating it.

I have different sounds... I don't want to be just that girl that sings reggaeton or trap music.

I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything - why can't I?

I want to cultivate my own sound in my own atmosphere, where the clock is not running.

I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.

It was always my dream to do non-film music, where I'm the voice and face of my composition.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.

I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having to be "political" or whatever. I'm just making what I wanna make.

On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

A movie is kind of like being the captain of a ship, which is nice, but when I perform by myself it's just surfing on the water and nobody really knows what happens.