Able Quote by John Cage

“If I knew what to do I'd do more than write a song for you”

— Criss Jami

“I had to say to myself, 'Don't write the music. Let the music write itself.”

— Michael Jackson

“You write your best music when you’re dealing with something. Get it out, dude.”

— Bella Jeanisse

“It was becoming clear that I had not been hired to play music or to write it, which was OK with me, except at…

— Michael Nesmith

“If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“And you won't write any more stupid songs about me?" "Can't promise that. In fact, that may be all I do for the rest…

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

“Compose music out of me. Make me loud. Let me reverberate off the walls and I promise I’ll be one of your favorite songs.”

— Leah J. Stone

“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I may not have written the song, but I could add my story to it. Everyone out there could. That was what made music…

— Tara Kelly

“And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take…

— Ally Condie

“Music can inspire people to wake up and say, ‘Somebody’s lying.’ This is the point I’d like to make with my music,” Watt told…

— Michael Azerrad

“The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.”

— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej