Bill Bruford Quotes

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

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

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.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

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.

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

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song, but it was a big struggle.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

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.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

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.

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

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