Lou Barlow Quotes

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

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

I write by myself and then deliver the song. Everybody knows, 'Leave Ester alone when she's in her zone.' Give me a studio and the tracks, and I'll call you when the doctor is done.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I create the music, and if this artist could complement this record, I reach out.

There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

My music-making process is pretty fun and easy.

It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can't get caught up in the limousines and the chicks. The most important thing is the music.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.

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.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen.

When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain.