Find Quote by Mat Kearney

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

— John Mellencamp

I listen to music a great deal. In a way, it's trying to express things that can't be expressed in words. That's something that…

— John Ashbery

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the…

— Yungblud

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to…

— Rachel Bloom

I was writing music for the sake of writing music; it was just fun.

— Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of…

— Ornette Coleman

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something…

— Zooey Deschanel

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't…

— Bill Callahan

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

— Rufus Wainwright

I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is…

— John Swihart