Sampha Quotes

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

We were totally confident that we would make it internationally. We had no money or instruments. We used cake tins or bottles with water in them - anything to make sounds.

But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

I've got so many melodies in my head.

I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has to go out. It has to become sounds and be written. It's an emotion that you can't repress.

I want to make theme-setting music, music that sets a theme without being cliche.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

People usually call me for experimental songs.

In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message across sometimes it's wise to say, Why don't we stop here and have a moment of silence, then go in a completely different direction?

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.