I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming.… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I always have loved music, ever since I was really little. I just loved to sing. I can't really explain it, except… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
That's one of the most exciting things for me about listening to records: It's a moment in time, and the less it's… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
In making a record there are so fewer people involved - at least in our case. There were no more than three… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school.… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean.… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
It's great, because we've had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart,… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I'm not really that interested in pandering to an audience of people that are going to judge me before they hear me. If they… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat.… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it's modest. I feel like… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
