Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

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.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

Music is all about creativity.

All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

In life, everything just happens, and I believe even before we are born that our role in life has already been determined. My main ambition is to continue to write music, which helps me to evolve in a spiritual sense and hopefully to inspire others.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

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

Any good music must be an innovation.

There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.