Beth Nielsen Chapman Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective — Beth Nielsen Chapman

I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry. — Beth Nielsen Chapman

I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms. — Beth Nielsen Chapman

Solid stone is just sand and water ... Sand and water and a million years gone by. — Beth Nielsen Chapman

It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening. — Beth Nielsen Chapman

People fall in love and swear they are so sure, then they turn around and say it's over. I never trusted love to come any closer till the moment you were mine. — Beth Nielsen Chapman

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper. — Beth Nielsen Chapman

Only the ones who believe ever see what they dream, ever dream what comes true. — Beth Nielsen Chapman