Richard Rodgers Quotes

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

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

I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.

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

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

I really know how to sing and create and put things together that entertain... be it controversially or be it from music or acting.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

It's rare when you stumble upon this amazing melody. We'd love to make a 'Let Me Love You' every time we go into the studio, but it's definitely a special one.

While the concert is instant communication with the audience, composing is a creative process where a song comes up out of nowhere and then transmits happiness to many, translates into money, fame, or whatever.

I like to make glamorously informed songs for glamorously intelligent people.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.

There are no calculations in the records I make. I record as many songs as I can. Songs that I think are my best.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see them. I don't always know what the end result is going to be, and I don't know exactly what it's going to sound like, but I can kinda see them.

Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.

I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think that's my own thing. Like when I start a song, I almost hear the rhythm more than the melody.

When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.