Andy Grammer Quotes

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

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.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

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

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

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.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.