Brett Young Quotes

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

When I'm in a songwriting phase, it's a phase. I don't just suddenly feel inspired and then write a song, because I always write with a co-writer.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

I don't write songs.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

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.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

There are no rules to writing a song.

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

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

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.