Gus Dapperton Quotes

I kind of always thought that I had a good ear for melodies. I think in terms of melody. I can just be walking and I'll hear a melody.

Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

It is easy to write unthinking music.

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

As soon as my brain starts working on reading a book, my dreams get a little more exciting, and music comes a little more naturally for me.

I think there are three kinds of songs; it's only my theory: psychological, emotional, and spiritual. When you write psychologically or intellectually, you have a tune in your mind, and you re-write it. It's an intellectual approach. The emotional is my favorite because it comes from my kishkas; it comes from my soul.

I'm just writing less of my own music lately - I go in and out of phases a lot. Sometimes there are these accidents that just sort of happen, that are kind of waiting around the corner. I guess Modest Mouse was one of them.

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.

I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

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

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich dies zusammen). What a delight this is I cannot tell ! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing lively dream.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.