Michelle Branch Quotes

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

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

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

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

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I want to be the most melodic artist. 'His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.' I want people to say that about me.

Whenever I'm making songs, I am pretty much, quote unquote, freestyling them into existence.

Anything with music, you got to have inspiration. You got to have inspiration to do good music.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.

Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.

Music is all about creativity.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

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

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.