Music Decision Quotes

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

I won't join another band again.

I didn't start off as a bass player, and Guns was the first band I really, like, 'Oh, I'm gonna be a bass player. This is what I'm gonna do.' And I really dove into it head first.

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English, a couple of songs.' Now, the record company and everybody's like, 'No way, you have to sing in Spanish.' And that's, you know, really good for me.

Since Bollywood is getting more corporate, it is getting difficult for the composer alone to take a decision unless you are a big name like Pritam or Vishal-Shekhar who can speak his heart out and say that 'This is the singer I want for this song.'

I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.

A lot of people wanted 'The Hardline, Part II,' and there was no way I was going to do that.

'Frayed Ends Of Sanity' off the 'Justice' album is a song that I really wanted to play with the band, and for years and years, I was always like, 'Let's play this song!' But I'll tell you something: I started working on that song almost from the very first time I joined the band.

I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

'We Will Rock You' we didn't think was a single. We almost saw it like an introduction to 'We Are the Champions,' which is a more classic, very grand song.

It's the best thing, me leaving Stone Sour.

I absolutely remember when I decided upon playing Ernie Ball strings, and it was right then and there at the guitar store up in Seattle when I picked up my first guitar ever. They said, 'What kind of strings should we put on it?' And I just looked at the brightest color package and said, 'That one!'

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

I like 'Confide' a lot. It was just like a great vibe for me. I was in the studio in Atlanta, and I recorded it and thought, 'This is definitely going on my album.'

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.

If there's going to be another Misfits record, I'd probably have to write the stuff.

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."

I didn't listen to any of my dad's scores.