Anat Cohen 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.

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

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

I make the kind of music I like.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.

I've found that as I've learned to improvise melodically, it seems like I can come up with a bigger variety of stuff. I kind of selfishly enjoy it more, because I'm in the moment so much.

Nothing can ever be wrong about music.

Ever since I was a little girl music was my escape and it was something that I did and was a huge part of me; aside from what my grades were in school. It was something that was truly mine.

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

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

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.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.