Ben Savage Quotes

When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

As soon as my brain starts working on reading a book, my dreams get a little more exciting, and music comes a little more naturally for me.

I can't be Stevie Wonder; I can't be Marvin Gaye, but I can be the foundation that I think withholds that mold.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

I feel like there are things that inspire the music, and then there's the music itself. I don't feel like I always need to force them together.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.

That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.