Top 36 Quotes by Duncan Sheik

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record.

I privilege the music over the lyrics.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that.

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

I started playing music at a pretty young age.