Writing music Quotes

I love writing music.

— Mary Steenburgen

I'm composing and writing music.

— Anthony Hopkins

I'm always writing music.

— Steve Lukather

I just want to keep writing music.

— Lady Gaga

We are always writing music.

— Shavo Odadjian

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

— Avicii

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

— Stephen Sondheim

I started writing music around 20 years old.

— J.I.D

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

— Noel Coward

I care about writing music and playing my music.

— Carla Bruni

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

— Adam Young

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

— Kris Allen

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original…

— Billy Joel

Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

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

— Ryan Tedder

Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.

— Neil Sedaka

Writing music while caffeinated produces some interesting results. The stimulation basically amplifies my music-production-dependent bi-polarity.

— Porter Robinson

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the…

— Greil Marcus

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found…

— Marvin Hamlisch

I'm a very visual person when it comes to writing music. I like to see something besides just a script, even if…

— Ramin Djawadi

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me…

— Ayumi Hamasaki

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even…

— James Wolpert

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music,…

— David Bowie

I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God…

— Mat Kearney

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

— Michael Kiwanuka

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they…

— Josephine de La Baume

I went to college in North Carolina, and that's how I learned how to play music. I learned how to play guitar…

— Nicole Atkins

“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

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

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

I'm really proud to be a woman making music. Nothing makes me happier than when other women approach me at shows and…

— Bethany Cosentino

Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes,…

— Ronnie Montrose

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

We've had experience of involvement in a local scene, and it was a good one, and we've learned a lot from it,…

— Jack White

“Life batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways before it's done, but those original selves which we were born with,…

— Frederick Buechner

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

— Joan Armatrading

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

— Anonymous

I always enjoyed writing music; things pop into my head every day.

— Wayne Static