Steve Harris Quotes

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.

I write my music.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

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

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

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

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.