Missy Elliott Quotes

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

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.

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.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

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

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

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.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

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

When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.

Music is all about creativity.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

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

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.