Wayne Kramer Quotes

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing up, I just taught myself piano and guitar.

I bought a guitar when I was twenty. But I didn't write a song until I was 25 or 26. I never learned to play others songs. I learned to play my own songs while I was learning how to make them better.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

I write my music.

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

I'm basically a keyboard player, so if it's got a keyboard on it, I'll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that's about it.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

I love writing music.

I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever, and then transfer that back into writing songs.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.

I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.

I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.