Timothy B. Schmit Quotes

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

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

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.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I just play the guitar and write songs.