Snoop Dogg Quotes

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

A lot of our earlier material was freestyle tunes.

My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

I don't create the movies I'm in. When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.

The identity of each band is what's important for me production-wise.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

'Circuital' was just so much about us as a band. We captured every song live, including the main vocal. That is probably my favorite My Morning Jacket record because it's really the essence of us being us. The solo record is just a completely different essence of just me trying to figure out stuff.

Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.

What I do is creative. It doesn't seem like that when I'm playing a piece that was written in the past, but the score is just the outline and everything in it is relative. The key is to make this piece written by someone else belong to you and then connect to the audience.

I always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it's useful, but it's how your intellect puts the ideas together that will bring hands to write or to play. So, it's really a combination of many things; hearing sounds, hearing layers of counterpoints, of chords.

I like to make songs that are based on concepts.

There were songs that we cut out after we chose the name, because 'Praise Break' turned out to be an underlying concept that I didn't know was there.

When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.

Being a rock and roll band is about spending time on the details so that you can hone your own identity.

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

Neo-soul is really less about a sound than it is about a look, in my opinion.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

Being a director it's mean - digging deep in yourself as well. I think the deeper I understood the material and the script and the themes and the characters, I felt the more confident I was and the more I could bring to the movie. So I was lucky to have my actors because they were right there with me in the deep end.

The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can still be called classical if it is an inspired improvisation. In either category, it is still music, and it can be good or bad or simply mediocre.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.

I'm just trying different styles and switching it up, but getting back to rap and the essence and the swag that I brought to the game from records like "Rack City" and "Faded," records like that. I got some good collaborations that people are gonna be excited about.

I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all.

It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.