Song Quotes by John Gourley

I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.

— John Gourley

Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.

— John Gourley

Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.

— John Gourley

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

— John Gourley

Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.

— John Gourley

I feel like every album we make, that's our debut album.

— John Gourley

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

— John Gourley

I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.

— John Gourley

We should be able to write songs for a new album every six months. If you think about it, it's not a…

— John Gourley

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.

— John Gourley

Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and…

— John Gourley

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been…

— John Gourley

I bought a book with guitar tabs and forced myself to learn. I would go to school and then come home and…

— John Gourley

My favourite piece of music is actually 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' as a whole. For me, it's the most perfect…

— John Gourley

It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be…

— John Gourley

Weird Al was something that kids would listen to. It's funny, super funny, smart. It's just kind of jokey. I remember hearing…

— John Gourley

I think we're pretty spiritual people, the band in general. We're not a bunch of hippies or anything like that, but we…

— John Gourley

We're just nerds that play music. Because we get played on the radio and have a Vitaminwater ad with Aaron Paul dancing…

— John Gourley

I like work, I like song writing, and I like the history of Atlantic Records. They've sat in the studio with so…

— John Gourley