Firsts Quote by Bucky Pope

I just write the music I want to - if people like it that's great, if they don't well that's unfortunate.

— David Essex

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

— Kris Allen

I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to figure out…

— Natalia Lafourcade

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about…

— Bijou Phillips

I don't tend to be current with anything. I just write the music and allow it to just be whatever it is.

— Bill Ward

I'll just write with no music, no nothing and then try to apply it to music and sometimes, a beat will speak to me.

— Ahmad Balshe

I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and…

— Louis Menand

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

— Sara Shepard

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

— Nora Roberts

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

— Lisa Scottoline

I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line. And then…

— Guy Pearce

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.

— James Buchan

I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

— Tim Lebbon

When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us.…

— Bobby McFerrin