Neil Innes Quotes

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.

I spend a lot of time on my music.

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

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.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

Songwriting is what I am trying to stay good at and get better at.

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies and simple chord changes.

I would sit in my dorm room and write songs. I loved it. I was learning to sing and play guitar. I was becoming a musician. I was the beginner who somehow could write a song.

I write all of my music.

I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my own stuff or play solos. I can accompany myself 'cause most songs are, like, four chords.

What I love more than anything in the entire world is making music. It's what I studied in school.