Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

I consider myself a composer.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

I'm involved in all things musical. It's all consuming, even if it doesn't necessarily manifest as a record or a concert.

I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.'

I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for a film. That's a different art altogether.

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.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for British pop music that did pretty well, but I've mainly been working on my own stuff with Duncan Sheik.

Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.

The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.