Teena Marie Quotes

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

Usually I write on guitar.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

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.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

I keep this crazy notebook of song ideas.

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

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

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.