Ronnie Wood Quotes

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

Being honest and spontaneous is important when making music. But I'm also really logical when I compose.

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

It is easy to write unthinking music.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

Composing music is hard work.

I usually think in terms of music.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.