Vance Joy Quotes

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.

My main thing is music; it's what I do.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Music is what I do naturally.

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

I spend a lot of time on my music.

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.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of writing a song rather than just leaving it up to inspiration.

Songwriting is my craft now, and it's more than something I just enjoy.

That's all I know how to do, just make music.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.