Sharon Jones Quotes

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.

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.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

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

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

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

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

The phrase 'pumped up kicks,' man, I was excited when I came up with that.

I remember, when I first rapped, I was writing raps. I don't write raps at all; I stopped early. I don't know - it seems like every day I find something a little bit easier.