Beautiful Quote by Claudio Simonetti

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

— St. Vincent

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

— Ludwig Goransson

We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie…

— Christopher Paolini

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived…

— Halsey

Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.

— Amber Rubarth

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.…

— Charles de Lint

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

— Jeff VanderMeer

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

— Goldie

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

— George Gershwin

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

— Alessandro Nivola