We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live. — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever. — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I'm writing music that people can grasp and hold on to... something that resonates. If you don't have that, then you have… — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection. — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my… — Robby Benson Copy Share Image
We're not doing anything vicious or doing anything hateful. All we're doing is writing music that's our truth. I don't think there's… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
In some ways, writing music is an art because so much of it is instinctive and sort of below consciousness, and lyric… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
I have about four different endeavors I'm going after right now. They all excite me in different ways. I'm all about keeping… — Kevin Griffin Copy Share Image
The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
My debut album is like a collection of work over the past nine or ten years that I've been writing since I… — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I've done bits of writing for other people but when I'm writing music as Years & Years, I'm using my life and… — Olly Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm always writing my own music, recording my own music, even if I am 9/10 of the time recording stuff for other… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
We've had experience of involvement in a local scene, and it was a good one, and we've learned a lot from it,… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“Life batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways before it's done, but those original selves which we were born with,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I've always been surprised when a straight guy likes me. It's just been like my whole life has been kinda like that.… — Allie X Copy Share Image
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I have all my tricks to unplugging. Sometimes I just close my eyes and I breathe a couple of times, even if… — Kissey Copy Share Image
