Courtney Barnett Quotes

Making music is fantastic.

Usually I write on guitar.

I am a singer; my job is to create music and harmony. Wherever I see harmony, I would go towards there.

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

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

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

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

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I am an inventor of music.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

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

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I love music so much. I've got something going all the time. I've gotta be singing. I've gotta be creating music, or I'm not happy.

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.