Jonas Blue Quotes

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

When you write a song, a song has longevity.

Anyone who takes the craft of songwriting seriously I radiate towards. Spending time with Daryl Hall was a dream come true. I picked his brain a lot because Hall And Oats is timeless.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

The past is filled with people who aren't traditionally thought of as fantastic singers singing these songs that capture people; songs like 'Louie Louie.' I just aim toward that, and I think I've gotten better at it.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

I'll hear a beat and think, 'How can I make this a banger?' I'll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it's going to be a slapper.

I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, 'Is that a song?' I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.