Zakk Wylde Quotes

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

Composers are very individual creatures.

The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music to places we'd never get on our own.

I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

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.

Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

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.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.