Tierra Whack Quotes

It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.

I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

I write music visually.

When I am writing music, I sometimes envision a video playing alongside.

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.

I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.

I have to be inspired to write a song.

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see them. I don't always know what the end result is going to be, and I don't know exactly what it's going to sound like, but I can kinda see them.

I usually know what kind of song I'm after. I know what I'm trying to do when I start. I don't always get there. But I try to visualize what it's actually going to be.

Very often the music comes first.

I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

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