Music Planning Quotes

I spent about a total of one year preparing for the 'Want' album.

I don't really like to think too far ahead when it comes to the music.

'Habits & Contradictions' is the prequel to 'Setbacks.' I had all these titles already in my head before I even dropped 'em. Like 'Setbacks,' I knew that was gone be the first one; I knew 'Habits & Contradictions.' I knew 'Oxymoron.' I got two more albums that I already have the title to it, and I know how I'ma play the theme off of it.

In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like 'Spoonful,' 'Fire' and 'Born Under a Bad Sign,' and got paid $10. Then we went to a nearby deli and ordered Cokes and French fries and started planning our future.

But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.

Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain.

Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

I didn't want to just be making music randomly and not have any direction.

I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

'Entertainment Tonight' would send me out to do interviews with musicians like Sting and Coldplay, and I was able to watch how they plan their shows. The late Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead always had a game plan, but he also was flexible if he had to change something at the last minute.

I don't like to surprise anyone with the music I compose for a film. That way, there is less trouble later on.

We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.

We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right before they go on stage.