Early Quote by Lou Barlow

I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a…

— Howard Shore

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

— David Bowie

I loved working with him [Justin Chadwick]. He was very smart in how he assembled the people around him and had a crew that…

— Eric Bana

I did a lot of musicals growing up.

— Chris Wood

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

— Kirsten Nelson

In my early 20s, I was buying Kristofferson records. I loved his acting; then I found out all the songs he wrote. I loved…

— Stephen Dorff

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

— Matt Skiba

I had it calcified inside me that that was the ultimate state of composing. Being Brian Wilson. Being simultaneously a genius and sort of…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

I was the drummer in a band called Hemsworth for a brief stint, too - it was not very great. I didn't even write…

— Ryan Hemsworth

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

— Marvin Hamlisch

I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album,…

— St. Lucia

My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my…

— Anne Waldman