Wayne Static Quotes

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

Anything with music, you got to have inspiration. You got to have inspiration to do good music.

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.

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

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I'm not that prolific in terms of making my own music.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I like to oversee what I do, so I have a hand in writing my songs. I also have people there to help me with my vision.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.