We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live. — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever. — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection. — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country. — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
The new generation of musicians is writing music on computers, and this is very sad because the quality of songwriting has crashed… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
What keeps me motivated to create new music is the joy of songwriting. The joy of being creative. The joy of writing… — Nick Heyward Copy Share Image
I'm always writing my own music, recording my own music, even if I am 9/10 of the time recording stuff for other… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
I think, for me, a way to really come up with new ideas and come up with new ways of writing music… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
My mother at a young age put me in bilingual, so my strength is really more in Spanish. Even though I live… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking about young people first when I'm writing music. Whenever I can reach that young person and inspire them to… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
“Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it. — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
