Emma Watson Quotes

I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.

I started writing once I got the ukulele.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

That's the nice thing about being a live act. I can get the audience, but it's for the moment. It's like, 'Can I do it tonight?' And you can see when people like you. But on record - and with the pen - it's almost for all time. Really, a lot more thought has to go into it.

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

You become a great writer by writing.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

I write in the studio.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.

I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.