Greg Lake Quotes

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

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

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.'

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.

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've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

I'm just writing less of my own music lately - I go in and out of phases a lot. Sometimes there are these accidents that just sort of happen, that are kind of waiting around the corner. I guess Modest Mouse was one of them.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

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

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.