Beth Gibbons Quotes

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.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than I knew how to play. I hope the same thing is true with acting.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

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.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.

I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a number of different things that lead to inspiration or wanting to write something down and share it with someone.