Catie Curtis Quotes

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

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

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

Composing is my life blood.

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.

It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting.

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.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.

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

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

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.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

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

I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.

I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth periods. My material for Sonic Youth often started on acoustic guitar.