Taylor Goldsmith Quotes

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself.

There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

Much as I adore the melodies, I choose a song for what it has to say.

When it comes to making a song, whatever the beat tells me to do, I do.

As a songwriter, I've always loved to tell stories. But in my band, it was always about what would make sense for a band to put out.

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

I look at making records like you make a dish. A culinary experience. The way you throw in a tambourine, it's like spices or herbs. The main part of the song is the stock.

People tend to put too much focus on the lyrics. It's not the be-all and end-all of our songs.

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.

I don't write; I just go in the booth.

A lot of projects I do be all 'real' music.

I like making dope music.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.

I got a lot of experience for my age. Some artists might take a line or two from a bunch of songs and snip it together and make something, but everything I say I do.

I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records, those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.

I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through hip-hop lyrics and my obsession with reading liner notes. Queen Latifah's 'Black Reign' is the album that stands out the most.