WizKid Quotes

My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music isn't like a 9-to-5 job. You never know. It's just the most unpredictable thing.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

You can't force music; It just has to come to you.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

Music inspires me.

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.