Andy Grammer Quotes

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

In the case of, like, Childish Gambino, he is someone who is a writer by trade, so he is very meticulous about how he writes his ideas. I don't do this with a lot of artist, but he would give me a treatment that he wants to do, and I'll go off that; then I'll give him feedback and pitch him my ideas.

Obviously when you write songs you've got to record them, but just writing the songs is one of my favorite things to do.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

Basically, I'm a melodic writer.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

I write my music.

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.