Jakob Dylan Quotes

Composing music is hard work.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

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.

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

Music is all I know.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

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.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

Composing is my life blood.

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

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

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

An album takes a lot of work and energy and dedication to make.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

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