Bea Miller Quotes

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to what I can imagine.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

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.

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

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

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

I think it is your job as an artist to be able to hear a song.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.