Brynn Cartelli Quotes

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

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.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

With me, I would never lose my sight of music.

I'm not losing the wonder in playing music.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

The great love of my life is music.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.