Jamie Lidell Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

  Jamie Lidell

  Song, Writing, Creativity

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day on a tour. I couldn't do it if I thought I was going to do the same songs every day in the same order, like a full-on robot.

  Jamie Lidell

  Song, Play, Order

  Source: www.believermag.com

• You have to sit with the songs until they start to live. Or do things straight-up spontaneously. I set up a beat just like I do in the live show, add the lyrics that I wrote in thirty minutes - I already had a topic in mind because I had this crazy experience with this girl who was trying to get close to me and it freaked me out because she was really close to another friend of mine, and I thought, "This is a story, I'm gonna make this into a song."

  Jamie Lidell

  Girl, Song, Crazy

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I just wanted to have some songs I could stand behind, and when I'm on stage just be loving it. People ask me why I did that and I think perhaps it's because Berlin is quite a gray place and I needed to sympathize with a bit of sunshine.

  Jamie Lidell

  Song, Sunshine, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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