I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I…

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the…

— Elton John

I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't…

— Yoshiki

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not…

— Philip Glass

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

— Bibi Bourelly

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

— Elton John

Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got…

— Ellie Goulding

I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation…

— Anthony Hopkins

I write at the piano, so I write things that fit comfortably under my hands, and I'm not thinking in terms of any specific…

— Esperanza Spalding

I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is full of…

— Glenn Gould

Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn't the same.

— Julian Bream

I didn't want to look back in 10 or 20 years and say, 'Yes, I always wanted to write that piano sonata or that…

— Stephen Hough

I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and…

— Fiona Apple

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines,…

— Paolo Nutini

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

— Glenn Gould

I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.

— Kirsty Gallacher