Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Lewis Capaldi
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish musician Lewis Capaldi.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I saw Marti Pellow in pantomime in Glasgow one time.
I want to prove myself.
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.
I'll be on Tinder until the day I die.
I had never released any music until 'Bruises' came out when I was 20.
If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.
I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!
Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.
I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.
I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and hours on end to get one good melody.
I started off playing my own songs, just because I saw it as a means to an end almost of, 'Right, if you want to play gigs, you have to write your own songs.' I mean, they were absolutely terrible.
People take music too seriously.
For me, getting my personality across is so important in getting that connection for people that enjoy my music.
I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.
Doing a festival in Hong Kong was special, looking out and seeing this massive crowd and the city.
My star will probably continue to rise, and I will start hanging out with Beyonce and Jay-Z and take them to a Toby Carvery.
For me, there's bands like Frightened Rabbit and The View, and they've all had that Scottish accent. It's just class to hear it.
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.
It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.
I like social media.
When I was about 9, my brother, who's six years older than me, started getting guitar lessons, and I wouldn't say that it inspired me to pick up an instrument: it was more me being like, 'Well, if he's getting guitar lessons, then so am I. I'm not missing out,' type of thing.
I would love to do something with Bill Withers just because I think he's next-level, just so, so class!
I see all these posts saying, 'I met Lewis Capaldi,' and in the picture, I look like a melting hippo.
My goal was to play 350-capacity rooms in the U.K. and, if I was lucky, 100-capacity rooms in Europe. I just wanted to play music and make money off it.
If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.
I never thought I'd get to the point where I'd be able to release a proper album, and I absolutely never thought that when I did, I would give it a name as stupid I have, but here we are.
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.
Even if 'Bruises' had done a fraction of what it did, I would have thought that was class.
I've been ghosted by all four members of Little Mix.
My eldest brother is six years older than me.
I'd be up for the 'Bond' theme, and I'd put my name forward for the lead role. If they want a wee, chubby guy from Scotland, then I'm their man.
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.
I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.
Why would you want a picture with a wee, chubby guy from Bathgate? I just don't understand my appeal.
I love playing live; that's the main thing. But I hate being in the studio. It's the most boring thing ever.
I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.
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.
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.
I remember hearing people like Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, and Elvis. My parents were big fans of them, and they were the early seeds. My brother was more into Slipknot, and I still listen to them, too, but it wasn't until I listened to Paolo Nutini that it really clicked.
I wanna be as transparent as possible. I'm not a serious guy.
I never set out to have a No. 1 single, not at all, man.
If you don't feel comfortable talking about really personal things in your music, you shouldn't do it. There's plenty of other things to write about.
I played a lot of pubs, and some were a bit rougher than others, but once you got on, it was the same reception everywhere.
I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.
I would have been happy being in a wedding band.
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.
I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'
People like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding - I do not put myself in that category.
I did my HNC and my HND at college in Motherwell, and the plan I had was to do third year at uni and then to try and get into teaching.
I tweeted that I wanted Little Mix's 'Touch' played at my funeral - I think that'd be a great song to send me into the abyss.
If it's just going to go in my body, then I don't want fancy things in my body. I just want regular things in my body.
It's such a weird thing nowadays, too, when people are fans of the songs and not the bands.
Having lots of human interaction online and during shows is very important to me.
It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.
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.
I'm just a wee, chubby boy that happens to sing songs.
When I was 13, I went on 'Britain's Got Talent.' I auditioned. I sang a cover of a song called 'White Blank Page' by Mumford & Sons.
I like talking to anyone that will listen.
I always wanted to play festivals more than anything in Scotland.
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.
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