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
I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band. — Verite Copy Share Image
I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. — Ayumi Hamasaki Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent. — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I was writing this music for the people that sit in the back pew of the church. People that do come, but… — Jonathan McReynolds Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in writing. I keep music in journals on an everyday basis. I'm always looking for ideas that can be… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to suck is the hard part of writing music. If you allow yourself to suck, you will probably write something… — Borns 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
It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really… — Geoff Zanelli Copy Share Image
I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
I'm just writing less of my own music lately - I go in and out of phases a lot. Sometimes there are… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I left Starbucks in 2015. When I was younger, I remember looking at Justin Bieber and wishing I had all these fans,… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
I grew up playing guitar and writing music, and I always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer and play the… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I've always been surprised when a straight guy likes me. It's just been like my whole life has been kinda like that.… — Allie X Copy Share Image
I have all my tricks to unplugging. Sometimes I just close my eyes and I breathe a couple of times, even if… — Kissey 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 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
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
A friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody… — John Wesley Harding Copy Share Image
Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
When I am writing music, I sometimes envision a video playing alongside. — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
