Joe Bonamassa Quotes

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.

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.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.

I feel really relevant and creative, and I don't think I would've made an album if I didn't feel relevant. I wouldn't have said a word.

When we write songs, we don't ever sit down to write an Old Dominion song. We just sit down to write the best song we possibly can.

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like I got a little trigger happy, because it was so exciting to have production and create and put a lot in there.

I record into my phone as soon as I hear a track. Melody comes first for me, and then my gibberish usually forms into lyrics and a concept from there.

When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

I can't even begin to express the joy I get from writing songs, both on my own and with others, I hold it all sacred.

You're always thinking about making new music.

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.