Kip Winger Quotes

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

I spent my life's work doing what I did in Dream Theater for 25 years, so I'm proud of that.

I think the third record is the hardest one.

I have put absolutely everything into my album. I feel like it's been such a long journey to get here. It is like giving birth to my first child, and I want to make sure I did everything right.

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

I'm not gonna ever announce that I'm going to do an album again. Waking up with that on your head almost doesn't allow you to make the best album you can.

You put your blood, sweat, and tears into an album and you think that's where it ends, but no - when you go on tour you're still carrying the life of that album and the life of those songs until you put your next project out.

An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.

I think making an album is a difficult thing.

I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

It's always a challenge to come up with a musical environment.

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and energy and self discipline into creating that kind of thing.

Looking back at it now, it's almost overwhelming, the amount of work that went into writing 'Shine', and to come up with the ideas that we're doing now.

The way I made 'Diamonds and Dirt,' which had all those hits in a row, was that I was just making a record. It was just the one that rolled up in my natural process, and it happened to be commercial.

It doesn't make sense for me to try to be, like, a dance dude who only releases two 12-inches a year and then plays every weekend. Making an album, you get to put out a body of work that shows a lot of different sides of you. And you get to work on it for an intense period of time and promote that album. And then you get to move on.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

I want people to appreciate all the time and effort that I put into my art and my music.

With music, when you finish a record, you are entwined with it throughout your existence in a way which is both interesting and challenging because it's a living form, you have to come back to it.

When I started to make music I wasn't as serious at first.