Arthur Honegger

I have a sense of the importance of music and how powerful it is to bring people together.

If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it again.

I’ve studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they’re just tools in order for you to express yourself and that’s really the upshot of it.

There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

I wanna hear myself everywhere

The way a band works is a metaphor for all sorts of collaborative and larger enterprises that people do.

Creativity shouldn’t be following radio; it should be the other way around.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ’em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ’em.

People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that would merit you paying, you know, $7, $8, $10 when CDs in the ’90s were $18, $19 and people bought millions and millions and millions of them.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

To rise above the crowd, discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds.

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.