Regina Spektor Quotes

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

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

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

I was always afraid to write music.

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

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That's why I've done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

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

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And I'm always afraid I didn't get those 10 seconds.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.