Alice Merton Quotes

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

The River,' to me, meant 43 songs.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

The lyrics are the essential part in our songs.

Songs are songs, and to reduce them is to waste them.

When I write a song, I want to write something that is really catchy and says something that might actually touch somebody.

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're unified by the rhythm underneath and the way that we decided to arrange and play them.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

All music has to speak in some form or other.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.