Being Quote by Stromae

I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then…

— Harry Styles

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

— Yann Tiersen

I think that when I am making music, if I can be really happy with it and get my message across, then that is…

— Tarja Turunen

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which…

— George Russell

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart

— Ville Valo

I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of…

— Chris Thile

I feel it's much easier to be honest or be myself in songs when I'm playing. That's why I felt, 'You know, I'm going…

— Alice Merton

I have always made music with passion, love and honesty.

— Amaal Mallik

I always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it's useful, but it's how your intellect puts the ideas together that…

— Alexandre Desplat

I love writing about things I know, and I like to be very honest in my music.

— Alice Merton

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all,…

— Gustav Mahler