Quotes About Music

When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

Some people see Jermaine Dupri as a producer, and they don't really know what the songwriting skills are.

Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

Songwriters often seek the company of fellow songwriters to help finish what they've started, and these days, many do it at songwriting camps.

A lot of bands are influenced by other bands, and that informs their songwriting for sure. It definitely informs my songwriting, too. But it's more about not thinking about it, and if it comes out of you, it's better.

In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life.

I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace.

All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play them in are a direct result of composing.

I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting out, writing songs when they're, like, 12, 13. I never thought I would go into songwriting when I was that young.

The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.

I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.

I bought a Three Dog Night album when I was pretty young, and I remember listening to all those songs. That's just greatly crafted songwriting, and the songs have such great harmonies. I remember marveling over those and trying to figure them out on piano. That was my early education - figuring out records, older records, as a kid.

Songwriting itself, I don't think you can really teach that.

I thought my singing and songwriting were good, but nothing different. Then you're presented with this picture image that contradicts the impression you get from listening to the record.

That's the nice thing about songwriting: You don't have to punch a clock or be in a specific place to do it. There's really a lot of freedom to it.

I sing and play guitar, but songwriting is how I pay my rent. And so I didn't really need a lot of publicity to get people to record the songs.

At the end of the day I'm not just sending beats in. I'm mixing the song. I'm recording the song. I'm engineering the song. I'm in the studio helping with the songwriting. I'm doing the whole beat - every single piece of it is me.

Songwriting is a difficult thing, but it's not so bad when you remove the barriers you put up yourself.

I am an open book through the songwriting.

My brother and I are not rivals. We are shipmates and best friends and the greatest songwriting partnership in the world.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

I learned classical guitar as a kid at about 7 or 8 years old. When I was about 14, I started dabbling in songwriting. That's when I got into the folky singer-songwriter style.