Alex Clare Quotes

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.

The first songs I ever wrote - my first, like, serious offerings - were all written on ukulele. It's always been a part of the way I write for a really long time.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

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

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'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.

I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth periods. My material for Sonic Youth often started on acoustic guitar.

One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.

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.

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

I started writing once I got the ukulele.

I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.