Hard Quote by Oneohtrix Point Never

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know…

— John Lydon

I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

— John Frusciante

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

— Ken Hill

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago,…

— Chris Brown

Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's…

— Bob Dylan

Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take…

— Frank Iero

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

— Chris LeDoux

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

— Ken Hill

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like…

— Johnny Cash

I think I just liked the idea that I could make something, that I could communicate some sort of idea through music.

— John Congleton

My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that…

— Janet Jackson