Tarja Turunen Quotes

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

I've got so much material; like, it feels as if every day I'm coming up with so many riffs.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.

I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

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

I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

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.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

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 didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'

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