B.o.B Quotes

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

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

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.

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.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

I write my music.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

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.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out.

'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.

There are no rules to writing a song.

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

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.