Ted Dwane Quotes

I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.

When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.

I make music because I like making music.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

Playing with Iggy pulled me back in for a while and reminded me of what I love about music.

I'm very happy with what I can bring into Nightwish, but I will probably want to keep on writing things. And that can take many forms as well.

So much of inspiration comes from collaboration with other musicians.

I just want to say, creating music with Childish Gambino has been one of the greatest joys of my life.

I never wanted to stop making music.

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.

I just want to keep making music and see where everything goes.

It's a joy, the process itself, even instrumentally, playing and constructing music. It's just so beautiful to me.

A band can be so much more than just a way to play songs.

There was something about the chemistry of the band and we would feed off each other. It was a gang of girls unleashed.

I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

My experience with Dino Jr. proved that making new music was a worthwhile pursuit.

I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.

It's definitely complicated, but it's all about the music. When people focus on other things, I think that's when it gets lost, and I would just rather focus on the music of it all.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

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.