Chance The Rapper Quotes

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

Sometimes I feel people try to be too complex. Some of the greatest songs are so simple. The simplest phrases.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Lyricists play with words.

My first album is playful.

My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.