Maurice White Quotes

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

Thomas Dolby is part mad scientist, part nature boy, and entirely moved by the power of music.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

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.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.

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

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

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.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.