Robin Gibb Quotes

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

You can tune your guitar funky, and something's gonna come out. There's no secret to it - either you got it, or you don't.

It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a great song. I'd love to write songs like that.

When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.

'Underrated.' That is the word that best describes Prince, the Guitarist. Why? Because his phenomenal guitar-playing was just one arrow in a quiver full of remarkable talents.

We love U2, adore their music, just blown away by who they are as artists. They just seem like really good people.

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

Peter Jackson has the sort of imagination that no one else has.

I want to be the most melodic artist. 'His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.' I want people to say that about me.

The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I am moving towards that zone where I don't want to be a replaceable name. This is my goal. I want to hear from the industry that, 'You are the only one who can do this. We will not go ahead with the project if you don't do this.' And I want to hear from the audience that it is worth watching a film that I have done.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

Shaji Kailas is an amazing director.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.