Ed Sheeran Quotes

When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do.

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it.

The thing about doing mashups and covers is it's great, but a part of you never gets to really showcase what your original sound is like or what your writing voice is like.

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

I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.

It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.

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

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.