I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country. — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae 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
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'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together… — Bruce Cockburn 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'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 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 went to college in North Carolina, and that's how I learned how to play music. I learned how to play guitar… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
A friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody… — John Wesley Harding Copy Share Image
As for the influence on my writing,music has definitely influenced how I write. That idea of cadence, repetition, all those elements appear… — Rich Ferguson Copy Share Image
For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding… — Charles de Lint 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'm a very visual person when it comes to writing music. I like to see something besides just a script, even if… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to suck is the hard part of writing music. If you allow yourself to suck, you will probably write something… — Borns Copy Share Image
I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent. — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
I was writing this music for the people that sit in the back pew of the church. People that do come, but… — Jonathan McReynolds Copy Share Image
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever. — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building. — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
Writing music while caffeinated produces some interesting results. The stimulation basically amplifies my music-production-dependent bi-polarity. — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room. — John Gourley Copy Share Image
You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Once you put your whole heart and soul when writing music, water just rains in the eyes of the listener. — Mina Deanna Copy Share Image
One of the first things I want do when I start writing music for a film is to create its own sound… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
