Greg Saunier Quotes

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

When I'm playing best, I'm just thinking about the music, just interacting with what my bandmates are playing.

I've learned it's a human responsibility to create fun, not just wait for it.

Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out.

I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

It's a great privilege to be able to play that much. When you play a lot, you can be really detail-oriented.

My projects are just side effects of what I obsess over, what I chat about, what random things pop into my head, what I dream at night.

When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

Pop music is the one genre that isn't a genre. If the kids like it, then that's what defines it as pop music. Pop music is just something new.

I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.

When we play, every day is different. All three of my bandmates surprise me all the time.

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.