R. Kelly Quotes

I write my music.

Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.

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

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

We just make music. For I never stop working.

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

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

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

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

I write music visually.

Composing music is hard work.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.

Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

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

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.