Graham Nash Quotes

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

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 spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.

I write in the studio.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

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.