Believe Quote by Robert Christgau

It's different from music because music is like going deep down into soul, like scooping out all the difficult, beautiful, messy stuff and putting…

— Alison Sudol

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

Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Writing music is just like writing a book.

— Billie Eilish

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart…

— Tim Gane

For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's…

— Missy Mazzoli

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together,…

— Henry Mancini

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

— Leona Lewis

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

— Charles de Lint

When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the…

— T.C. Boyle

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