Herman Melville Quotes

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Anything with music, you got to have inspiration. You got to have inspiration to do good music.

I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has to go out. It has to become sounds and be written. It's an emotion that you can't repress.

Music is a living art.

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

Great music is great music, period.

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

I've always said that music is like literature.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.