Kali Uchis Quotes

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

There are no rules when I compose songs.

The best stuff comes out when you're not making it for anything and you don't really know what you're making.

Maybe you have a particular type of sound you want to go for, but if you really want to be original, there's no real recipe for that. For me it's just about letting it come to you... if you can let your head clear out, then almost anything is available.

All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

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

There are no rules to writing a song.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don't know what you'll be humming five minutes from now.

The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I'm just telling a story.

There is spontaneity to my work.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

My music is born from instinct. I react to situations a script may provide while creating a song.