Lyrics Quote by Jon Hopkins

I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as…

— Gary Louris

Subconsciously you just pick up things into your sort of musical vocabulary and use them.

— David Gilmour

If I don't write a song, I only record it when it's played for me for the first time and I connect to it,…

— Bea Miller

I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way…

— Dan Chaon

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

— Cass McCombs

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described…

— Emily Haines

There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece…

— Nick Hornby

It's just like an idea, like a chorus, and then we just jam on it - it happens in loads of different ways. The…

— Luke Pritchard

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

— Lisa Lopes

Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile