Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of verses or a certain set of chords. I can match them up quicker now than I used to. The one thing you do improve is songwriting.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.

My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write it down immediately. I don't wait, or it's gone.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

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

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.