Valee Quotes

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

You learn fast from others how to be an entertainer as well as a musician; you don't necessarily have to get out there and just play - you can be an entertainer, too.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

I do have musical background; I sing.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.