Lukas Forchhammer Quotes

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

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

It doesn't necessarily take four years to write a good piece of music. It might take four hours. It just depends on when your inspiration comes.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

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 write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

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'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.

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

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

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

A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.

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.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.