Dennis Brown Quotes

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

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

Composing is my life blood.

Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.

I have a crazy work ethic. I'll do 20 songs a day. I love music that much.

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

I don't intend to stop making music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

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.

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.

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 didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

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

Musicians own music because music owns them.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.