Kaitlyn Dever Quotes

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

For me, this band and the music that I write and this touring thing that I do and playing in front of people, singing, and making a lot of noise on guitar - all that was more important than a lot of other things.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.

I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13. Crappy rock bands, avant-garde things where we'd, like, 'wanna go against the norm, man.'

I play in a band called Hellyeah, and I really love doing it.

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til it's close to perfection... But achieving perfection takes a lot of energy.

I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano.

If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you're talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.

Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.