Eric Church Quotes

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.

You're always thinking about making new music.

I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.

I didn't really think about the sound of my songs before I started recording things in the studio.

Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

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.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.