Composer Quote by Warren Zevon Download Open image “I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.” — Warren Zevon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Music Song Thinking Trying Writing
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me. — Austin Carlile Copy Share Image
I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... . — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I think that's the only way I know how to write songs, is to think about my life, and also to think about the… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me. — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of… — Banks Copy Share Image
I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically. I say… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I spend an awful lot of time thinking about stuff that's happened, but I don't want to be someone who's only writing songs because… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to topical music - songs that were about things. So when I write songs, a lot of the time, they're… — Santigold Copy Share Image
I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals. — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years.… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. [ Inside Out (VH1)]” — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they wouldn't think...… — George Enescu Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to… — Ernest Gold Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it.… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
