Jeff Gutt Quotes

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

Songwriting is a big deal to me.

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

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

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

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!

I love to make music and stay grounded.

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

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.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.

I actually was consciously trying to emulate bands like Bruce Springsteen, and just trying to emulate what they do structurally.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.

I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

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.