Paracelsus Quotes

I'd listen to a song and say, 'Hang on, I like that piano thing,' so I'd play the guitar like that and get the vibe from it, and it just evolved from the get-go. It was pretty obvious what to do; You don't think about rock n' roll: you just do it.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

There are no rules to writing a song.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

Music happens. It cannot be made.

When I wrote 'Grand Illusion,' I was making it up as we went along. I wrote this stuff and tried to do the best job I could.

I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.

I play by ear - I'm self-taught. And so everything I do is through that technique.

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

I like to improvise.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.