George Lloyd Quotes

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

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.

If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

There's a few times in the past when I wrote a song, and I put the words together, and they were very clear pictures, and I felt like I was putting together a really good story. But I don't think I was ever really able to stay on that. What I've sort of developed lyrically is more about the sound of the vocals and what they are.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough.

I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody.

I'm not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I'm an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs.

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.

If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song, it's going to be a good song - especially if it's from the heart.

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

I feel like a lyricist is somebody that writes their own lyrics. Now songwriters and lyricists are two totally different things. You can't really be a lyricist if you didn't write your lyrics. There's no passion, there's nothing in it coming from you. It's somebody else's feelings and you just taking it and running with it.

I get on my porch with my guitar, look at my trees, and write a song.

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

I think I was born to be a songwriter.

I like walking and hiking, and many of the ideas for songs have germinated from this.