Jack Garratt Quotes

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

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

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

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.

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

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.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

Composing music is hard work.

I write everything. It's my favorite part of what I do. And lyrics are my favorite thing.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.

I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be music.

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.