Nina Nesbitt Quotes

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

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

There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs, not even the actual writing process, but conceptualizing, getting into the songs. That's why I stopped doing mixtapes.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

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

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth periods. My material for Sonic Youth often started on acoustic guitar.

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

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.

We write so many songs, it is difficult to narrow them down.

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.