Case Quote by Nicky Jam

I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.

— Terry Bozzio

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever…

— Lukas Foss

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

— Olivia d'Abo

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

— Samuel Barber

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

— Harrison Birtwistle

I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting out, writing…

— Alice Merton

The young people today are really so creative and talented - I mean, the ones who are really are and they get together and…

— Debbie Reynolds

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

— Billy Joel

It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone…

— Kathleen Hanna

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band…

— John Philip Sousa

It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot down little…

— Richard Meale