Sheck Wes Quotes

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

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

If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.

I write the best songs I can.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

I'm not Tupac or this prophetic dude or anything like that. I just want to make music and have fun.

If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

Music inspires me.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.