Gin Wigmore Quotes

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

I'm just writing less of my own music lately - I go in and out of phases a lot. Sometimes there are these accidents that just sort of happen, that are kind of waiting around the corner. I guess Modest Mouse was one of them.

My music's matured so much, I don't have to create any barriers.

My playground as a musician is growing.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

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've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.