Writing Music Quotes - Page 2

• Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Writing, Mind, Substance

  "Anthony Kiedis interview: Full transcript". Interview with Sofia Wenborn, tvnz.co.nz.

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• It was a natural thing for me to go become a musician, and then to start writing music. I don't even really remember making a decision to go into music, it was just there for me, always. If I weren't making a living at it, I'd still be writing music.

  Geoff Zanelli

  Writing, Decision, Musician

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• I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

  Billy Joel

  Writing, Issues, Mind

  Source: www.ew.com

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• With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.

  John Maus

  Fall, Writing, Surprise

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.

  John Frusciante

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The Heart Is a Drum Machine". Documentary, Music, 2009.

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• Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

  Adam Young

  Dream, Writing, Color

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• I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Dancing, Performing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

  Isaac Marion

  Book, Writing, Giving

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• Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

  Greil Marcus

  Writing, Voice, Everyday

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• Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Book, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

  Sefi Atta

  Writing, Attention, Pay

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Country, Teenager, Writing

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• I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Song, Writing

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.

  Tyler Hilton

  Independent, Writing, Artist

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

  Caroline Polachek

  Writing, Crowds, Festivals

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For me, writing music is a good way to say what's on my mind. It's less vulnerable in a way, less embarrassing, less exposing to the idea of seeing someone's reaction. The thing about it, though, is you need to be ready... especially if you've got something you're burning to say... even if it's just what some people might think is just a small moment that nobody'd ever bother with or notice.

  Aaron Lines

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• I was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of thing. There are opportunities for students to engage in those types of protests - taking to the streets - but there is also writing poetry, writing music, beginning to express themselves, holding forums, educating each other, the whole range.

  Michelle Alexander

  Writing, School, Opportunity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

  Cass McCombs

  Writing, Feelings, Mind

  Interview with Eric Harvey, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2011.

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• Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Writing, Feelings, Helpful

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm always thinking about young people first when I'm writing music. Whenever I can reach that young person and inspire them to go after their own dreams, start their own movement just like I did with Wondaland. Starting their own tribe and showing people that we are not all the same, we're not all monolithic. I think that's what it's all about for me.

  Janelle Monae

  Dream, Writing, Thinking About You

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I wish I had time to do more reading, but I just haven't had much time. But I still find time for writing. I've always preferred writing over reading, even though those things do go hand in hand. But when I do have time, even if it's not writing music, just writing in general - ideas and stories and things like that.

  Youth Lagoon

  Reading, Writing, Hands

  "Youth Lagoon: Out Of The House, Into The Bughouse". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Home, Writing, Creative

  "Zooey Deschanel Interview NEW GIRL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.

  Chuck Ragan

  Spiritual, Writing, Creating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Writing, Independent, Growing

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's much more of an emotional sort of thing. I want people to find something out about themselves through my music, something that was inaccessible before, something that they were suppressing, something that they couldn't really confront.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Writing, Emotional, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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