Ken Hill Quotes

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• Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
• The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
• Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
• If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The…
• If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.
• Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
• Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.
• The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.
• Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
• Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.
• Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find…
• Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.
• Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.
• The most important thing is that you like the music.
• Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.
• Music is about textures as well as melody.
• The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
• Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.
• I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.
• People don't have fun making music all the time.

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