Brittany Howard Quotes

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

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.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

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.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

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.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I've got so many melodies in my head.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.

I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich dies zusammen). What a delight this is I cannot tell ! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing lively dream.

As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

I've written songs everywhere, and I think the place does matter.