Jack Prelutsky Quotes

Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

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.

Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

I love music. I love creating, so I just get inspired with whatever mood I'm in. Whatever the story dictates, that's where my mind goes.

Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.