Jess Glynne Quotes

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.

I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

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

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

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.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.