Gene Ween Quotes

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

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.

If you're thinking the road ahead is a little shorter than the one behind you, you're thinking about trying to write a good song and hoping to make a decent record of it.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

I'm in this music duo called Moors.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people are who were involved with it. And, it's been wonderfully received by people who like our kind of music, they think it's something special, and so do I.

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'

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

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.