Musical Goals Quotes

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

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

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

I'd like to think that we will have had something to do with a shift back to heavy rock. That's what we've wanted all along, and we knew there'd be fearless steps to take to achieve that.

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'

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

I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.

Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.