Aliens Quote by Amy Tan

I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think…

— Tod Machover

Even when I was studying piano, I always preferred to play around with my own improvisations rather than do my studies. So I've always…

— Johann Johannsson

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing…

— Howard Shore

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff,…

— Miroslav Vitous

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop -…

— Idina Menzel

I did playwriting, creative writing, short story, novelization.

— Brook Lopez

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then…

— Tim Minchin

Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments…

— Meghan Trainor

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

— St. Vincent

I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays.…

— Aaron Sorkin

I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely…

— Richard Grossman