May Quote by Robert Frost

It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's…

— Max Richter

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're…

— John Cage

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

— St. Vincent

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

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

— Walter Piston

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

— Jules Combarieu

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

— Lisa Lopes

Knowing how other people wrote music is a great tool, which can be applied into your own musical mindset.

— Max Cavalera

It is easy to write unthinking music.

— George Crumb

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the…

— Elfriede Jelinek

Sometimes music speaks what you feel inside.

— Anonymous