Jack Antonoff Quotes

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.