Flume Quotes

I find it really easy to write on the bass, because you kind of get straight to the point: you do lyrics and melody without thinking about decorating the song until after you've finished it.

I am really heavy into songwriting.

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.

I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested, and I learned how to do it.

Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost a writer.

The guitar is the ultimate vehicle for expression and composition for me. It's a part of my DNA!

I kind of write in a very classic way. I sit in the piano, working on some catchy, cool melodies and coming up with song concepts for those melodies. I kind of write in a very traditional way '- how people have written since the early '40s.

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 usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

Ever since 'Hail to the King,' we've been more cognizant of our chord progressions, our key changes, drama in songs, a lot of dynamics - we've really added a lot of that in there.

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.