Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

I started writing songs at age 15.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I've been writing songs since my teens.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.

I wrote my first song when I was 6 years old. It was actually called 'Six Years Old.'

I'm still a kid in his bedroom, writing songs and playing them.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

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

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

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

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.