Creed Bratton Quotes

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

As a musician, you write and make music as you go. It's definitely in a great sequence. When you release songs, you think, "Let me make sure this goes with this so it's like a story."

I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.

You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff. But there's this thing that happens when the song first comes out, that sort of magic when it first comes out of the ether, and you can't even really explain where it comes from. That happens so much with music, and people understand that with music. But I really think that a lot of movie and TV should be the same way.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think that's my own thing. Like when I start a song, I almost hear the rhythm more than the melody.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I'm learning every day. And that's the fun part.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.