Brendon Urie Quotes

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

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

Music is all about creativity.

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

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.

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

There are no rules to writing a song.

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great.

I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.

I've been ripping the Rolling Stones off with every song I write in some form or another.

I'm just inspired by music.

I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.

I'd always envisioned 'The Big Beat' leading off 'The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever heard. I knew I had something good… but I had no idea just how good.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

I'm always eager to make new music.

You're always thinking about making new music.

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

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.