Taylor Goldsmith Quotes

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 think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.

Sometimes I forget that I'm supposed to keep people entertained because I'm just making music for my lifestyle and for my people who live my lifestyle. We forget that there's a world waiting on us.

Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.

Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

My goal is to make music and be a part of cool projects.

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

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

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

I love being involved with Brainfeeder. I would have never thought that it would have been such an intense involvement.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.