Astrid S Quotes

It doesn't take much for anyone to pick up anything I play - it's quite simple. I go for a good song. And if you hear a good song, you don't dissect it - you just listen, and every bit seems right.

I wasn't worried about flash or persona... It's all about writing a good, solid song.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.

For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.

When I do music I don't think about urban music, pop or country, I just think about a good song.

It was important for the first piece of original music that I release to have a timeless feel because that's the type of music I want to make.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out of a collection of songs to be able to understand what the musician is doing.

I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.

I took one guitar lesson, and they wanted me to play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' or 'Michael Row the Boat Ashore,' and that was the last guitar lesson that I ever took, so I taught myself what I wanted to know.

That is the music that I have always wanted to play: real, genuine guitar music.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good.

And I only really like to play the acoustic guitar.

I think it's down to our songs - we've always made sure every song on every album works.