Jonny Greenwood Quotes

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

There are so many great songs yet to sing.

I wish I wrote 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.

I want to make great songs.

I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.

I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something I have seen on my travels around the world. It's one of the great bonuses of my job in that I get to meet so many people and experience different cultures and it would be hard not to be inspired.

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

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.

Whenever I meet someone who's talented, I always want to write something for them!

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.