Knowing how other people wrote music is a great tool…

It wasn't like I told my family, 'I want to be a singer. I want to be a writer. I want to be a…

— Maisie Peters

“music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. I become confounded…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I…

— Leo Tolstoy

When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.

— Lee Ranaldo

I never wrote music for the mainstream.

— Hozier

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because…

— David Bowie

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

— Lou Doillon

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

— Harrison Birtwistle

We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he…

— Ian Axel

I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.

— Eddie Trunk

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

— Richard Wagner

There's always those few people that are like, 'Why don't you play any of the material off your first two records?' And I'm like,…

— John Rzeznik

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff…

— Kathy Bates

I didn't have to apply my mind to the aspects of scales and playing, and instead, I focused on creativity. I wrote music, but…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you…

— Billy Joel