Flume Quotes

When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

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

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.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and see what comes out.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

I'm just writing less of my own music lately - I go in and out of phases a lot. Sometimes there are these accidents that just sort of happen, that are kind of waiting around the corner. I guess Modest Mouse was one of them.

Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.