Down Quote by Mike Lowry

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

— Krist Novoselic

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

— Travis Barker

We wanted to make music to fit with the way we live and celebrate life.

— apl.de.ap

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

— Stephen Mallinder

Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.

— Noel Redding

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and…

— Thurston Moore

Each song had a different way of coming about. In some, the music was written first while others it was the lyrics. We didn't…

— Elena Tonra

We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do…

— Patrick Stump

Fundamentally, our job as songwriters is to sit down and listen.

— Mary Gauthier

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

— Chris Lowe

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing…

— Fred Frith