Mary Gauthier Quotes

Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.

We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I think we want to inspire other people as well, so that's what we'll try to do through future songs.

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.

I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that person have to come up with something special, come up with something that is excellent material, so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it.

I am an inventor of music.

Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great.

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.

As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

Once I got into pop songwriting, I was kind of just ready to help other people tell their stories... I'm here to facilitate and structure and grow and make things a little more fabulous and a little more urgent.

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

We actually have some pretty good songs. But if they come out too serious, then we have to scrap them.