Shawn Amos Quotes

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

All I ever wanted to do, personally, was bring something new to what I loved: the thing that I loved the most, the music that I loved the most.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Any good music must be an innovation.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

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.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

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.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.