Music Quote by James Brown

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

— James Brown

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

— Katy Perry

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

— Tristan Prettyman

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

— Sun Ra

Each song had a different way of coming about. In some, the music was written first while others it was the lyrics. We didn't…

— Elena Tonra

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing…

— Antonio Damasio

I wrote 'We Got the Beat,' which is a fun song, and people equate us with fun, but there's so much more to us…

— Charlotte Caffey

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

— Madonna Ciccone

I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

— Simon Rattle

The fascination with the music stayed with me for years and I wanted to find out why I liked it so much and to…

— Gregor Schwellenbach

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

— Ludwig Goransson