Ryan Adams Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

  Ryan Adams

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Ryan Adams (2009). “Infinity Blues”, p.13, Akashic Books

• There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

• Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

• Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

• A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Style

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

• I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Thinking, Littles

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

• I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Order

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

• Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

• There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Ideas, Phrases

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Heart, Creating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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