Bad Quote by Julia Holter

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

— Austin Carlile

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you…

— Adam Jones

I didn't pretend that I was good at writing music, so I wrote terrible music, intentionally. As time went on, the terrible subsided, and…

— C418

I've always been making stuff. I had a very free upbringing, and very encouraging parents. I just found that it was a really cool…

— Ida Maria

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

— Bryan Adams

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and…

— Daniel Powter

The reason I make music is to make people feel something, anything.

— Blackbear

I just wanted to write about music if I wasn't going to make it.

— JPEGMAFIA

I feel like if you can make music, and get people to, you know, evoke that feeling out of other people through writing songs,…

— Dr. Luke

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

— Philip Glass

I tried writing a song and it wasn't very good. I sung it to my mom and she told me it was bad -…

— Doja Cat

I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives.…

— Steve Reich