Lou Barlow Quotes

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

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

I just play the guitar and write songs.

I started writing once I got the ukulele.

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

There are no rules to writing a song.

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

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.

After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of verses or a certain set of chords. I can match them up quicker now than I used to. The one thing you do improve is songwriting.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

I'm writing songs that I want to sing.

I don't have a journal; I write music.

I always wrote ballads, and I always wrote rockers.

I always enjoyed writing music; things pop into my head every day.