Sheryl Crow Quotes

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

Any good music must be an innovation.

The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

I try to write five or six songs each year and not just in one genre.

I love rearranging and reimagining tunes, so I want my audience to enjoy hearing songs in a new way and make their own discoveries.

I believe that experimenting is what production is. But it doesn't mean much if you don't have a solid foundation in what you're experimenting with. You can't really deviate from music unless you know music; it's not gonna work.

I'm just writing less of my own music lately - I go in and out of phases a lot. Sometimes there are these accidents that just sort of happen, that are kind of waiting around the corner. I guess Modest Mouse was one of them.

Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player that I am?' and I feel like I listen to so much different music, and I'm a student of so many genres of music, and I feel like it's fun to apply those things and anything super applicable to any type of music.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.

I think I have the capability to make music different from what I have already released. There are ghazals and other songs that I can create. There is no stopping me though.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.