Dave East Quotes

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

I just want to make the best music I can make.

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted to write my own. It was really bad to begin with. It's improved slightly since.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

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

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.'

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

I write my music.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.