Randy Bachman Quotes

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day,' those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don't think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality.

In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.

I write the best songs I can.

As a songwriter, it's good to have criticism, and I like objective opinions.

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

I'm always working on new music.

'Fitoor,' in a way, signifies my journey through the years. It's a collection of 10 songs that I have written. It's basically about what I have been experiencing.

You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.

I'm always working on music.

I sometimes write songs on the piano, even though I don't actually play the piano. I always hire someone to play for me whenever I decide to sing a song I have written on the piano. My song 'Rosa' is one.

There are some great songs - like, I really like 'Snowcone' and 'Whelk Then' and 'No Problem.' I think I'm dissatisfied that it's not written from start to finish; it's over a year's worth of work that doesn't correlate.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.

It's pretty funny to me when I hear people say, 'I write six songs every day,' or, 'I turn out a song a day.' I bet you that's a whole week of bad songs.

I write great songs and the mistakes make them even better. No one else could write a Morrissey song.

It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

Recording and performing 'Replay' was a learning process throughout, as we focused on the details.

I just want to focus on creating more music.

I'm always writing music.

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It's such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!