Keifer Thompson Quotes

There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

When I am writing music, I sometimes envision a video playing alongside.

I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in my head while writing the music in the first place.

When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

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

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

I love having other people sing my songs.

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.