Kina Grannis Quotes

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

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.

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

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

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

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

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 never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what they're going to sound like. I just sing over what I've done.

Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

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 like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

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

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.