I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece. — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
The music I wrote as a kid already was always instrumental. It was never based on lyrics. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I've played music since I was six, and I always wrote songs just for myself. I did it for fun, posting songs… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote 'Hallelujah,' it ignited… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I didn't pretend that I was good at writing music, so I wrote terrible music, intentionally. As time went on, the terrible… — C418 Copy Share Image
I was criticized by some people for my first album because they said I was taking sacred music. They knew nothing about… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
One of the earliest memories I have of feeling the power of film music was watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
The fascination with the music stayed with me for years and I wanted to find out why I liked it so much… — Gregor Schwellenbach Copy Share Image
I went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass.… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
I would say my relationships have always affected my music. Each one. I wrote most of my great songs, that I'm still… — Kevin McCall Copy Share Image
I would sit at the organ and just start making up things by myself - I was maybe 7 years old, which… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
“Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
