Brad Paisley Quotes

I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

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

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

I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is.

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.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

Being honest and spontaneous is important when making music. But I'm also really logical when I compose.

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

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

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

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

I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote them. I had to go over to Don Gorman, the piano player, and ask what in the world I was playing.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.