Jay Watson Quotes
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I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like.
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I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.
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I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.
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I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.
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Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not.
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I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.
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Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.
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I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish.
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Whenever I think I know something is a classic, or an amazing song, I realise it's still so subjective, because you and your friends could be talking about something, say, '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' - an amazing classic song - or someone would be like, "'Hey Jude' is an amazing song!", and I'd be like, "I don't really like it."
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It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.
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