Matisyahu Quotes

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

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

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

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.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

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.

Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

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

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

Penn and I want to write a record together.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

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