Avi Kaplan Quotes

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where I made my first proper song. I've always loved creative writing, so I had done that as well.

Writing songs, especially with the instrumental stuff, it's difficult.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

I'm always writing music.

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

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I don't write songs.

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.