Free Form Quotes

I never work from the script. I get the script more or less.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

I love going into the studio with just an idea of the direction. Like, I want this tempo... I love to start from scratch, and the tracks sort of take on a life of their own.

Art should not have to be a certain way.

I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together.

I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics, so that's when I thought, well, I don't have to write a song with all those verses and choruses or lyrics. I can just sing everything the way I want to. So I sang all the instruments with my voice and just went with it.

When it comes to making a song, whatever the beat tells me to do, I do.

There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art.

To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

Jazz never ends... it just continues.

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

If I get in the studio, it's very organic. I like to go off how I feel.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

I'm not a classical player. I don't want to be a classical player. I love to improvise, because things happen that never happen anywhere else.

I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily actually sitting down and writing lyrics, just free-form writing, whatever's going on in my mind.

I make music with no boundaries.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

There is spontaneity to my work.