Himesh Reshammiya Quotes

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

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

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

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

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 music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

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

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.

I really, really like writing songs.

I just want to keep writing music.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

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

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.

I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter. I found out that was a job, that someone would pay you to sit in a room with a guitar and make up songs! It is the greatest job in the world. I wrote three or four songs a day. That's what I lived for.