Jason Molina Quotes

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

Composing is my life blood.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

Ultimately it's a blessing to be able to make music.

To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention.

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It's such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!

I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.

When I try and extract what it is about my music that I do or love or try to create, I'm never aware of it at the time. I just make something.

I used to be really into traditional meditation, but I found that creating new music is the best meditation. When I'm able to get into that space, nothing else matters, and I'm just a vessel for whatever the message is; I feel like I'm not in control. It's like this organic communication, and I feel like that is the quiet, in a way.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

I just like a beat that grabs me. And then I'll come up with a concept after. I like to take my time with music.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

I want to make music until I die.

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon.

Music is always a creative process that comes from the heart. It's a feeling, a vibration, that we ride on.