David Berman Quotes

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I would sit in my dorm room and write songs. I loved it. I was learning to sing and play guitar. I was becoming a musician. I was the beginner who somehow could write a song.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I write on all instruments.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

I write my music.

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.

I wish I could write music notation. Even if I couldn't play it, I wish I could just write it.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

I started writing music around 20 years old.

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

Music is such a big part of my life.