Best Writing Music Quotes
64 Writing Music quotes by 60 unique authors
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I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do…
— Isaac Marion
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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 until around that…
— Bruce Cockburn
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught…
— Gavin Bryars
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
— Harrison Birtwistle
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Writing music is just something that I was born to do.
— Joan Armatrading
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It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these…
— Nate Ruess
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I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
— Ayumi Hamasaki
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My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
— Alexander Ludwig
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Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
— George Gershwin
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Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.
— Stan Getz
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Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
— Bryan Lee O'Malley
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There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.
— Kim Gordon
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Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In…
— Charles de Lint
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I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she…
— Kathleen Hanna
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Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
— Conrad Hall
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I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
— Marvin Hamlisch
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Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when…
— Herbie Hancock
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My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.
— Amy Lee
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I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
— Alanis Morissette
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I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
— Lisa Marie Presley
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Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating…
— Patti Stanger
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I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part…
— Frederick Buechner
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What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the…
— John Cage
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
— Laura Bell Bundy
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