Jonny Greenwood Quotes

I write songs every day, 14 times a day.

I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

Composing music is hard work.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

I'm just inspired by music.

My only passion is music.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

Music is always my first priority.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

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

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.