Rick Derringer Quotes

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

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

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

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

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

I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

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.

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

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

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

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.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I would love to play with Rufus Wainwright. He's one of my favorite songwriters.

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

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.

I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.

I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

I don't intend to stop making music.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

People don't have fun making music all the time.