John Mayall Quotes

When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

The way we like to make music is we'll announce a project when there are zero songs, and then we take that pressure and try to make an album really fast.

I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.

You know, I wish I had more time in the week.

I think the work process' - composers do not get enough time to make a good song. That's the one thing which needs to be changed.

I always think of albums as the format. I think it's perfect. I don't think you can tamper with that. It's not just sound, the analog, which is so much richer. It's the format. You're constrained by just 45 minutes, and it's perfect to me. I don't want to listen to any more than, and I live and breathe music.

When we first signed to Loud, we had a 20-song demo. So all of those songs we wanted to put on the album. But we started making new ones, and through process of elimination, we wanted all the new ones. We didn't like the old ones no more.

I tend to have a lot of songs ready for each record I do anyway. I always have. I was thinking, the more you write, the better chance you're going to come up with a collection of stuff that is going to work together.

I recorded 80 per cent of the record in my guest bedroom; then, when 'Shine' went to number one on one of the charts, the label called and said, 'Can you do an EP?' Then, 'Can you do a full length? And can you do it in two weeks?'

There are never enough minutes in the day for what I want to do.

What people fail to realize is that any album we did, really, 90 percent of it reflected the songs people brought in. If someone had brought in two great rock songs for 'Cornerstone'... they would have been on that record.

When me and Eric did songs back in the day, we didn't go and sit down in front of no A&R. We made our album, and then, when we finished, we handed it in, and then we picked the best song for the first single.

I love to be able to tell a whole story in three-and-half minutes.

I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.

When I made 'Feed tha Streets,' those were the only 17 songs I had made, period. There was no cutting songs out or adding other songs in.

We started 'Heaven And Earth' in 2016. That was probably the heaviest touring year of my whole life. We probably did almost 200 shows in 2016. We went into the studio, and I honestly didn't know what the album was going to be. So I just kind of started picking songs that I liked.

There's no record that you done heard me produce that I spent more than ten minutes on.

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

The most fundamental constraint is limited time

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

Every time there's a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I'll tell you. In this day and age, I think it's important that people know that.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

We're all confounded by a lack of time.