Daniel Rossen Quotes & Sayings

I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice. For some people that's easy to do, but I find it's really difficult. — Daniel Rossen

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs. — Daniel Rossen

I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band. — Daniel Rossen

I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much. — Daniel Rossen

I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else. — Daniel Rossen