I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally…

I accept all of the music that I wrote.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

— Richard Rodney Bennett

The music I wrote as a kid already was always instrumental. It was never based on lyrics.

— Ramin Djawadi

I would say my relationships have always affected my music. Each one. I wrote most of my great songs, that I'm still using today,…

— Kevin McCall

I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass. I would…

— Chuck Barris

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

— Perfume Genius

The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other…

— Tom Scholz

I didn't pretend that I was good at writing music, so I wrote terrible music, intentionally. As time went on, the terrible subsided, and…

— C418

“Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties was far…

— Robert Fritz

I would sit at the organ and just start making up things by myself - I was maybe 7 years old, which was too…

— Ramin Djawadi

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point…

— Brian Setzer

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

— Philip Levine

I've played music since I was six, and I always wrote songs just for myself. I did it for fun, posting songs on Tumblr,…

— Soccer Mommy

One of the earliest memories I have of feeling the power of film music was watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. That was…

— Geoff Zanelli

The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous…

— Michael Hersch