Julian Cope Quotes

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

Every now and then, I like to take a break from the visual arts and play a few songs on guitar. I don't play them for anyone.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.

I play guitar, so that's kind of my outlet, but its just something I want to keep for myself.

I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing the guitar.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

I always feel like I want to write a song when I'm really upset. And when I'm in an argument with my family, I go straight to the piano and just kind of take it out on the piano and get all emotional.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

I certainly miss playing piano, and I really wish I did it more - it's really a very therapeutic thing to do for me. I just need to be home for more than a few minutes to be able to play more, I guess.

Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's what relaxes your subconscious. That's why everyone from animals to humans love music.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me - people who are a little insane, and have to make music. It's not a choice they're making for the sake of vanity - like it's cool to be in a band.

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

Music is a safe kind of high.