Rick Wright Quotes

I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

After Mad Season, I started writing my own music for Pearl Jam and brought it in. 'Given To Fly' came out of that, and so did 'Faithful' - those were on 'Yield,' which came after Mad Season.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

I write my music.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

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.