Kina Grannis Quotes

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

I just want to make the best music I can make.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

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.

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

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

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.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I was playing a singer-songwriter, so I started writing, and I started going up to different places around Los Angeles and reading poetry of my own, which terrified me, but I had to do it. I picked up a guitar and started learning guitar.

Usually I write on guitar.

Sometimes, I sit with my guitar and start playing... something or the other pops into my head... Basically, I write whatever that comes to my mind. I've written a lot of songs, but they are lying in my cupboard... I mean to do something about them someday.

There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing.