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• For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

  Peter Drucker

  Writing, Years, Firsts

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• I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again.

  DJ Shadow

  Writing, Ideas, Needs

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I have about four different endeavors I'm going after right now. They all excite me in different ways. I'm all about keeping as many irons in the fire as possible. I'm writing music, trying to write a book (aren't we all?), putting a festival together, speaking... It keeps life interesting.

  Kevin Griffin

  Book, Writing, Iron

  "Interview with Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record ("I Thought I Saw Your Face") is about eight years old. It's the old "I had my whole life to write my first album and six months to write the second one." I did, to some degree, but actually, a lot of the songs that ended up on the record, I wrote really recently. So it varies.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Song, Writing, School

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

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• It scares me that people are going to stop writing music. I don't mean music that has to be physically written down, but they'll stop using their brain which is without a doubt the most powerful tool that you could have in any art.

  Glenn Branca

  Art, Powerful, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music and sitting in my studio, just pottering with ideas, it's a lot more personal and creative for me, I don't feel restricted.

  Guy Pearce

  Writing, Ideas, Creative

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• I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.

  Stan Getz

  Regret, Writing, Facts

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• Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Passion, Writing

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• When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.

  Charli XCX

  Writing, Firsts, Inspired

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

  BANKS

  Writing, Love Of My Life, Important

  "Q&A: BANKS On Her Burgeoning Success, Debut Album, And Giving Her Phone Number Out To The Entire World". Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.stereogum.com. February 4, 2014.

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• You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting.

  Alex Kapranos

  Writing, Adventure, Thinking

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• I just want to keep writing music.

  Lady Gaga

  Writing, Want

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• The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

  Ryan Tedder

  Writing, Forever, Cool Things

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• The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia’s art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

  Quentin Bryce

  Country, Art, Writing

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• I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Writing, Weekend, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.

  Anais Nin

  Music, Writing, Wine

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• Will Arnett and I were never in the same room, but once I saw early animation we started writing music for that and then he just kind of did his little rap over top, some of it was free form and some of it I made up, we all just kind of contributed to it.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Rap, Writing, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm not shooting, I love going on adventures with friends. I love zip-lining through rainforests and different natural habitats, and I love writing music on the side, and I love drinking coffee. I'm a big coffee drinker and go to a lot of cafes and stuff.

  Max Schneider

  Coffee, Drinking, Adventure

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• I would rather write songs and then practice with the band. Just the band camaraderie is awesome and then writing music and then just listening to it and saying 'Dude, we made that music!' That's really fun.

  Sam McCandless

  Song, Fun, Writing

  "Cold Interview With Kelly Hayes (And A Cameo From Drummer Sam McCandless)". IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 8, 2003.

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• When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.

  Richard Pinhas

  Philosophy, Reading, Writing

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• I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Writing, Heaven

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

  Shane McCrae

  Writing, Brain, Easier

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Fall, Inspiration

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• I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

  Alanis Morissette

  Writing, Enjoy, Articles

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