Tom Scholz Quotes

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I tell my wife when she's listening to my songs that the slightest hint of whether she likes it or not puts the pressure on me.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.

I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.

There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.

If I ever do meet John Mayer and we end up in the studio, hopefully he'll bring the guitar, and I'll make a beat to it or something.

That's all I ever do, just try and do the best I can and cater to the song, cater to the music.

I never jump on to a song and say 'I will only sing it.' I am not too obsessed as a singer. I am happy being a composer.

I just want to focus on creating more music.

I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'