Approach Quote by Dumitru Tepeneag

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.

— Rodney Crowell

I've always said that music is like literature.

— Jose Carreras

I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my music.

— Johann Johannsson

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

— Haruki Murakami

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

“According to my present theme the writer of imagination would attain closest to the conditions of music not when his words are dissassociated from…

— William Carlos Williams

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

— Robert Frost

In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and watch the…

— Suhayl Saadi

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

The way I work with music is that I take on the story.

— Michelle Chamuel

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I…

— Tom Glazer

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the performing arts…

— Fernando Pessoa