Hunter Parrish Quotes

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

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.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

When I do music, I do it for me and my fans.

I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.