Niccolo Paganini Quotes

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

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.

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

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

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 try to get a degree of realism in my music.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

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.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

There are so many great songs yet to sing.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Composing is my life blood.

My only passion is music.

For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.