Gilbert O'Sullivan Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

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.

First and foremost, I make music to satisfy my creative urges, but at the same time, I know my fans are waiting, so they're the ones that push me to keep going.

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

The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had an emotional release. I've always enjoyed that, but you go home and think, that was a good day's work, and you move on.

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

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

I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.

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.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

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

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

When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

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

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

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