Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics…

— Jerry Garcia

When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you try to…

— Steve "Lips" Kudlow

I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It…

— Matisyahu

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it…

— Pitbull

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

— David Friedman

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

— Jon Foreman

It's a job, and it's challenging. But I love music and creating. That's why I got into music.

— Mat Kearney

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

— Joey Jordison

I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for…

— Lauryn Hill

I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nostalgic. To me,…

— Jamila Woods

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

— Jessi Colter

To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.

— Paul Rodgers

I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm…

— Zach Condon

To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.

— Jonathan Levine

I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating…

— Daniel Lopatin