Mohan Sithara Quotes

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

Composing music is hard work.

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

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

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

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 have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

Writing songs, especially with the instrumental stuff, it's difficult.

It can take me many months to write one of my own songs.

Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I would spend about eight months on a song, leaving it alone and going back to it later on. I just kept layering things on, building them up in to epic songs. I let the songs evolve - it's really daunting.

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and energy and self discipline into creating that kind of thing.

Writing a song is work. You have to go deep in order to mine the material and dig it out.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.