Brantley Gilbert Quotes

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.

I like to make glamorously informed songs for glamorously intelligent people.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I really like conducting my music in concerts because I'm convinced it's not just for films; it has its own life. It can live far away from the images of the movie.

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

I really know how to sing and create and put things together that entertain... be it controversially or be it from music or acting.

I want to play guitar, piano, drums, write songs for other people. I can do punk - I can do indie - but as long as it has my voice, it'll always be my sound.

I love songs, so when you're song-based, it doesn't matter which way the production leans.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

I'm just going to sing my music; I'm going to write my songs, and I think that people get to know me in that sense.

I'm not an artist that vents through my music. I don't do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose of entertaining.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

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

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.