Mark Lanegan Quotes

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

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

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

Making music is fantastic.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

Composing music is hard work.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.

I normally write on acoustic guitar, although piano is the instrument that I actually studied. Occasionally, I'll write on the piano or sometimes with no instrument at all.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

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

Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was written on piano.