Herbie Mann Quotes

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I'm always working on new music.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

You're always thinking about making new music.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I've always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

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

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

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

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.

I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like I got a little trigger happy, because it was so exciting to have production and create and put a lot in there.

I've always really been a big fan of rock music. I wanted to record rock music when I was 14 or 15, but I was too young; it would have been ridiculous.

I'd always envisioned 'The Big Beat' leading off 'The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever heard. I knew I had something good… but I had no idea just how good.

Our job is just to keep making great-sounding music and great performances.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

Jeff always had a huge part in making a song a record. You felt like you were capturing lightning in the studio. It was never boring. He always was there to serve the song.

For one, the whole concept of 'Live From Here' - writing a song every week - was like composition bootcamp.