Macklemore Quotes

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

I get a lot of my songwriting done while driving around Nashville - sometimes it comes to me that way.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'