Beck Quotes

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.

When I did 'Hand Cannot Erase,' I didn't have a specific singer in mind.

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

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it.

Normally when I do an album, I have a concept behind it.

The producer should decide what kind of music is being made, what it's going to sound like - all of it: the why, when, and how.

I'm always working on new music.

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what we can work with.

You're always thinking about making new music.

I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

I write my music.

When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.