John Daly Quotes

I don't sing. I played guitar for a while. I'm not great, I'm not Lenny Kravitz by any means, but I do like to strum.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I'm a songwriter first.

For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the songs. That's it. As a result, my guitar playing suffers pretty horribly.

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then.

I would sit in my dorm room and write songs. I loved it. I was learning to sing and play guitar. I was becoming a musician. I was the beginner who somehow could write a song.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

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

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.