Kyle Gass Quotes

Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.

It was important for the first piece of original music that I release to have a timeless feel because that's the type of music I want to make.

There was nothing extraordinary about the work I was doing as a composer though I had delivered hits.

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

If you're thinking about making a hit song, and you think I want everybody in the world to love it, then you kind of make it up, and you do it.

'Nova' was one of the tracks that inspired me to create 'Fade,' which later became 'Faded'. It has a beautiful melody, and the way it progresses throughout the whole track is just amazing!

There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.

We love music, and when it's good we flip. And we want to get to the core of why it's good.