Neha Kakkar Quotes

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.

My approach to making music has always been making ideas and developing them. Sometimes I develop them all the way by myself. The other part of development is I will work with my friends who are just some of the best producers in the world, give them an idea.

I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

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

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them.

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth.

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!