Charli XCX Quotes

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I write music visually.

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

Whenever I get an idea for a song, even before jotting down the notes, I can hear it in the orchestra, I can smell it in the scenery, I can see the kind of actor who will sing it, and I am aware of an audience listening to it.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.

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.

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

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

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

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.

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.