Michael Giacchino Quotes

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

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

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

If you're always playing the correct notes, there's something wrong - you're not searching; you're not reaching for anything.

I like that people are still trying to guess what kind of music I'm making.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.

Any good music must be an innovation.

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.

The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.

I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s.