David Guetta Quotes

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

I love the magic of the studio.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

I don't think events in your life affect your music.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.

I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.

You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.