Duncan Sheik Quotes

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and you can't wait to share it with people; you can't wait to record it.

Success isn't dependent on the market place, because I can't control that. It's about completing a good song.

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

I don't write songs.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

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

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

A lot of the songs I've recorded are songs I write.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.