Hidden talents Quote by Xavier Atencio

Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting average, but…

— Richard Sherman

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I mean, I knew that one day I'd do something writing-oriented as soon as I started writing. But when I started singing, I was…

— Alison Sudol

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

— St. Vincent

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

— Steve Martin

Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.

— Dreezy

I actually didn't do any writing of music while I was locked up. I wrote a book, but I didn't do any music.

— Da Brat

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

— Peter Hammill

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

— Joan Armatrading

I sort of just wrote the songs, the way I wanted to write them, sing them the way I wanted to sing them, perform…

— Johnny Reid

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

— Bob Weir

I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Marty Panzer, who wrote…

— Erich Bergen