Gabrielle Aplin Quotes

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

My music is born from instinct. I react to situations a script may provide while creating a song.

The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.

I remember when I did 'Live SheckWes, Die SheckWes,' and when I did 'Mo Bamba,' I one-taked those because it came from my heart.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

Composing is my life blood.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

I freestyle, but I'd rather sit down and write down my music to map out what I'm doing. But if I'm out with my friends, I will freestyle, you know?

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

One day I had an instinct to put on a kaftan and go out and sing. People liked it out of the blue. An artist should be instinctive.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.