Jade Bird Quotes

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

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

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

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've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

Normally when I do an album, I have a concept behind it.

I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

You're always thinking about making new music.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.