I found when I started getting serious about writing…

I love country music so much. I love all kinds of music. But when it comes down to it, I'm from East Tennessee, and…

— Ashley Monroe

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

— Ryan Tedder

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

— Victor Hugo

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

— Neal Shusterman

Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record,…

— Anais Nin

I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music. It's what…

— Stephen Hough

Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another.…

— Charles de Lint

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

— Noel Coward

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner…

— Michael Kiwanuka

LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.

— James Murphy

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

— James Brown

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my…

— Hisham Matar

I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word…

— Eavan Boland

Lolita' was written at a time when we were heavily listening to more dance, electronic, and trance, and then on the flip side we…

— Jessica Origliasso