Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

I don't sit down to write a number one hit. I'm not that good at my job - I don't know how to do that.

You can never really know what a record's going to be.

Being in Weezer's just gotten so much more fun over the years. I love almost every part of my job. My very favorite part is working on new songs.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

Songwriting is what I am trying to stay good at and get better at.

Most of the best songwriters that ever lived couldn't read music.

I feel blessed that I got an opportunity to work with the likes of A. R. Rahman, Vishal-Shekhar among others.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

It's amazing to me that songwriting is an actual job.

I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.

Labels and people didn't know if i could write original music or anything.

Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

There's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

It's a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I'm a person that can make some hit singles. I'm not in no booth trying to be a lyrical genius. I'm preparing to make me some singles, and as I develop as a man, then they'll respect my emcee skills.

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

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.