Miles Davis Quotes

It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

I'm always writing music.

I started writing music around 20 years old.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

I don't ever go and write music for an album. That's not something I do. I don't go and write music for an audience or a career; I don't do that at all. I write basically all the time. I'm addicted to it.

You're always thinking about making new music.

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.

I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.