Tom Odell Quotes

When you love what you do, you just really fall in love with it. Sometimes you record a lot more songs than the album will even hold. You record like 300 songs and only 12 songs go on the album. It takes time. But if you love what you do, it works out.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.

I started playing guitar when I was 14 and eventually gained the confidence to start singing a little bit.

Musical success depends on how much you enjoy it and how much you are willing to put in. Luck must follow, too.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.

If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

Music is all I know.

Music is my hustle.

To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn't matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

I spend a lot of time on my music.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

Composing is my life blood.