Khalid Quotes

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

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.

I write music visually.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I usually think in terms of music.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

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.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'