Boring Quote by Barry White

If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music.…

— Corey Taylor

“...for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.”

— Angela Carter

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

— Eddie Van Halen

I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't…

— Gordon Lightfoot

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then…

— Alber Elbaz

One of the things I've been panting to do, in fact, is write some music for a fencing-ballet, the movements, music and staging would…

— Neil Diamond

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

— Alison Goldfrapp

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

— Alexander Borodin

I like Canada for a number of reasons, politics and people and all that stuff aside. I was raised there, and I write music…

— Devin Townsend

Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and…

— Lucy Dacus

It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

— Lee Ranaldo

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

— Richard Rodney Bennett