Billy Sherwood Quotes

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 play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.

In order to write music, you need lots of Tabasco sauce.

I wish I could write music notation. Even if I couldn't play it, I wish I could just write it.

I bought a guitar when I was twenty. But I didn't write a song until I was 25 or 26. I never learned to play others songs. I learned to play my own songs while I was learning how to make them better.

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

If I couldn't act, I'd really love to try music.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.