Beth Hart Quotes

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

I started writing music around 20 years old.

I live a normal life. But I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next, musically. 'Do I need a fresh producer? What was Peter Gabriel doing when he was 32?'

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Success is good, but I have seen the other side. I don't think much about it. I just work towards making a good melody, with catchy yet meaningful lyrics, and as I'm a music producer and arranger myself, I know the sound I need.

I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

I'm always writing music.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

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

You're always thinking about making new music.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

Labels and people didn't know if i could write original music or anything.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.