Angela Bowie Quotes

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

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.

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

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

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.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.