Arjun Janya Quotes

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

My hobby is my profession, and therefore, I keep on composing creatively.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies, or sometimes added my own harmonies that I've always wanted to sing on the song. And then it just went on from there - singing violin parts and trumpet parts and just trying to emulate the sounds of the instruments.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

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

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

Composing music is hard work.

I'm always working on music.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I just want to focus on creating more music.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.