John Petrucci Quotes

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

For the most part, I really love being in a collaborative thing. And in a collaborative thing if you have a singer as good as Sean Smith or Eddie Vedder, you kind of think, well, why don't you just go ahead and let them sing? People seem to really like it.

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

I'm getting in the studio with everybody I've always wanted to work with. That's the amazing thing.

The way Beyonce works, the song is a jigsaw piece and then she will piece various elements.

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I don't intend to stop making music.

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

A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.

I just want to keep writing music.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself.

I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.