Greg Saunier Quotes

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.

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

When it comes down to intuition, when it comes down to gut feelings about whether a song is right, you can get distracted with words, rationalization. There’s nothing wrong with music school, but part of music school has to be the ability to forget all of it, too.

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.

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

It’s amazing to think that there must be this river of ideas constantly rushing inside of a person, and once you’ve somehow found a path into it, then it’s just there, whether you will it to be or not.

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

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

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

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

What’s great about going on tour is that it immediately unburdens me of those self-centered misconceptions. Because suddenly, with these songs you’ve been obsessed with for months, you’re playing them for hundreds of people.

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.

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

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