Mel Brooks Quotes

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

Sometimes a song can be born in few minutes, if the feeling is right, some other times it can take days.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

I've got so much material; like, it feels as if every day I'm coming up with so many riffs.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.

When I'm recording, which is synonymous with writing, I'll play things over and over again until it sounds like I've got the right guitar part. Whereas I think, as the much younger player I tended to do things much more consciously. I didn't wait for the moment where inspiration might strike. That's what I do now. I wait for it to naturally start to replay itself in my mind. As I say, I don't force it. So I like to think of myself as a receiver. I'm a telephone line to who knows where, but until I hear it through that receiver, I don't usually do it. It's got to start writing itself somehow.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

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

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

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

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

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.