Norah Jones Quotes

Usually I write on guitar.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

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.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

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

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

I actually played guitar before I played drums. And I always play guitar on the Slipknot albums as well, as well as being responsible for a lot of the songwriting.

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

Composing music is hard work.

I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

Maybe that's what makes my stuff different, 'cause I write it all on the bass. I can't play but a few chords on the guitar, so the bass works just fine for me.

I find it natural to write on the bass, and a lot of people find that really odd.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.