Gregory Harrison Quotes

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

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

Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost a writer.

I got my first guitar for Christmas when I was five years old.

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

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

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've always loved to sing.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

I got into the guitar at a young age, and it's a big part of what I like to do during my down time.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.