Firsts Quote by Phil Collins

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

— David Bowie

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

— Ludwig Goransson

I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.

— Dickey Betts

We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something.

— LeAnn Rimes

We became the songs we wrote.

— Barry Mann

I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before…

— Hamilton Leithauser

I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different…

— Peter Gabriel

I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

— Walter Piston

The producing side is always a hard thing for me. I look at Flying Lotus and see producers dropping instrumentals, and I think I…

— Kaytranada

I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

— Walter Piston

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were…

— Wayne Kramer

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

— Andre Previn