Conrad Aiken Quotes

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

We all like music in my family, but I'm the only one who's made it my life.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.

I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.