Robby Krieger Quotes

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I try to take whatever I can from the songs I grew up listening to, these vibed-out pop numbers, and make them my own in some weird way.

I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen to anybody else; I don't wanna be influenced.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.

I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I'd like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person's personality away, because they're trying to do things so technically.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others.