Top 25 Amos Lee Quotes

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.

I don’t know anyone who is a writer who isn’t influenced by the relationships in their life.

There’s not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

I love when people are coming up and they’re working hard and you can see that they’re really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it’s nice to see people who really care about the process.

I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There’s just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

I love what I do, so I don’t mind working.

I’m not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I’m discovering things about myself that I’d rather not.

I don’t really know that there’s any real rules for songwriting.

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

You need a strong sense of ‘otherness’ to be able to create in your life.

I don’t really hang out with a lot of celebrities.

I live a pretty anonymous life.

The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

I love vinyl, man.

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don’t know about.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

I wasn’t a very good teacher.

I’m not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

As I’ve moved along – not only my life, but my career and things like that – you look at yourself and start going, ‘Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?’ Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don’t.

You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn’t just happen naturally anymore.

There’s nothing but spirit in music. That’s all it is. Yeah, there’s a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it’s all spirit.

I’m not a mass-appeal artist.

I don’t know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don’t really need to.

I can relate to soul, R&B… whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

I don’t really know what ‘folk music’ means anymore.