Laura Mvula Quotes

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I was always afraid to write music.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

I am an inventor of music.

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.

I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about that, and guitar playing isn't a stretch, but songwriting is. We all have our challenges in what we do, and that's mine.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

We just want to be a band and play good music.

Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes.

I'm hoping to work on some original songs and to keep performing in front of a crowd as much as I can.

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

There is a healthy amount of self-doubt and criticism with most people that make music. You find your areas that are your best. Onstage, I am good. But talking to someone in the grocery store? Forget about it.

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

I hope someone thinks I sing good. I'm always working hard to sing better. I sound the way I sound, but I can always be better. I work hard at singing and being a better recording artist.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.