Mick Fleetwood Quotes

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.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

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.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

I love music. I love creating, so I just get inspired with whatever mood I'm in. Whatever the story dictates, that's where my mind goes.

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

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.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

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 feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.