Lewis Capaldi Quotes

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• A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Time
  • Write
  • Songs

• It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Life
  • Boring
  • Recording

• I would have been happy teaching music in schools - I still would be, and I still might be, although I don't know if I'm clever enough.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Music
  • Teaching
  • Schools

• I wanna be as transparent as possible. I'm not a serious guy.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Guy
  • Possible
  • Transparent

• It's when I'm playing a headline show I feel weird, 'cause I don't know how to react to people coming out to see me.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Playing
  • React
  • Headline

• If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Seriously
  • Review
  • Stride

• It's such a weird thing nowadays, too, when people are fans of the songs and not the bands.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Fans
  • Songs
  • Bands

• I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Music
  • Audience
  • Sound

• I had never released any music until 'Bruises' came out when I was 20.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Music
  • Released

• The first artist whose music I really got into was Paolo Nutini. When his album 'Sunny Side Up' came out, I think I listened to it on repeat for, like, six months.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Album

• Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with fond memories. I will look back on it as an extremely stressful time that somehow also managed to be extremely boring.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Amazing
  • Memories
  • Boring

• I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Songs
  • Rubbish
  • Requests

• The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Better
  • Songs
  • Sooner

• Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world, I think the more people opening themselves up creatively to collaborate with others, the better.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • World
  • Song
  • Better

• When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what we can do?' And I went, 'I like Malay,' who's Frank Ocean's producer, and they were like, 'Not going to happen.' It did seem so, like, high-in-the-sky sort of thing, do you know what I mean? It still does, that it happened.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Like

• Even the idea of people paying to hear me shouting into a microphone for an hour is alien to me - and I hope it always will be.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Hope
  • Idea
  • Alien

• In hindsight, I think my manager and I both knew that 'Someone You Loved' was a special song that we had to put out. But no one was expecting it to do so well.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Song
  • Manager
  • Expecting

• Doing a festival in Hong Kong was special, looking out and seeing this massive crowd and the city.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • City
  • Special
  • Looking

• I have been gigging around Glasgow and Edinburgh since I was 12. I played in pubs at that age, even though I obviously was too young to be in them. So I used to hide in bathrooms, come out and play my set, then get the hell out as quickly as possible.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Play
  • Possible
  • Played

• People take music too seriously.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Music
  • Seriously

• I think the first thing you release should come from you. If you want your first piece to be exactly how you want it to be, and how you see it, you should release it yourself.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Release
  • Piece
  • Exactly

• My mum and dad have made Twitter accounts, and they will send me links if there is a bad review and tell me they'll find out where the reviewer lives.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Dad
  • Accounts
  • Mum

• I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Illusion
  • Singers
  • Voices

• Why would you want a picture with a wee, chubby guy from Bathgate? I just don't understand my appeal.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Guy
  • Picture
  • Appeal