Call Quote by Ornette Coleman

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent…

— Carla Bley

I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston…

— William Sleator

I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older.…

— Sarah Brightman

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

— Paula Pell

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my…

— Randy Houser

I am a passionate, committed composer, and the guy I used to write musicals with, once he was able to ditch me and get…

— Eric Garcetti

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

— St. Vincent

I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses off just…

— Judd Apatow

I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting…

— Ian Anderson

I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus was always…

— LIZ

For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind - that I'm able to talk to people about the music I've written. I always…

— Aaron Bruno

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about…

— Hozier