Lucy Dacus Quotes

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

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.

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

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

I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics.