Sam Palladio Quotes

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened to me!'

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.