Aldous Harding Quotes

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

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.

In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I'll just go into the studio if there's a really good song that I have in my head and want to do. I think, as artists, you're constantly in creative motion. If I stopped writing songs, then that's a part of me that would stop in my life, and I need constant motion.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.

I get mad about something, and then I have this melody in my head, and then afterwards, the lyrics come.

When I write songs, it happens very quickly, sometimes 10 to 15 minutes, and I draw inspiration from everything.

You're always thinking about making new music.

I can't force myself to make up a song. Music comes to me naturally.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.

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.

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

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.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

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

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

I tend to write at the piano, but usually the melody and lyrics come first. Like, I'll be in the shower, and I'll start singing, and the melody and the lyric will just come out. Then I'll quickly try to finish the shower, try to remember it, record it on my phone and save it for the studio.