Construction Quote by Rich Ferguson

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting…

— Michael Azerrad

I've had so many different influences musically, even from people who aren't even musicians. If you're inspired by someone and you document it musically,…

— Mark Salling

I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.

— Rob Roberge

When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

— Elizabeth Crook

I'm definitely influenced by the music. We dance to music, and you have to listen to it and phrase your dancing and movement in…

— Misty Copeland

My songwriting is very personal. The music that influenced me was so impactful that had I grown up somewhere else, I know I would…

— Phoebe Bridgers

I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a different kind…

— Robert Christgau

Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.

— Matt Skiba

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

— Tristan Prettyman

I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think that's my…

— Jazmine Sullivan

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and…

— Brandi Carlile