Writing Music Quotes - Page 3

• I've had the idea since high school, of writing music just for voices, just a choir. I don't know if I'll ever get around to doing it, but I'd definitely be excited about trying to pull that off at some point. It definitely seems like an older-me kind of project.

  Panda Bear

  Writing, School, Ideas

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• As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

  Gavin Bryars

  Art, Writing, College

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• Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home was. It's just a very natural choice.

  Jamie Lynn Spears

  Home, Writing, Choices

  "Jamie Lynn Spears Is All Grown Up and Taking the Country Music Scene by Storm". Interview with Popsugar, www.popsugar.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I think there's no purpose for writing music if it is not meaningful.

  Darren Fletcher

  Meaningful, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.

  TyDi

  Writing, Cities, Numbers

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

  Alan Palomo

  Writing, Thinking, Focus

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

  Jello Biafra

  Song, Writing, San Francisco

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• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Kids, Writing

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• My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.

  Anton Yelchin

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. You do get writer's block when you're writing music, and having inspiration from other great writers is great. You have to look for inspiration because sometimes music isn't the only thing that you can look at.

  Taylor Momsen

  Block, Inspiration, Writing

  www.seventeen.com. January 27, 2010.

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• I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

  Amy Winehouse

  Writing, Challenges

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• It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Writing, Composer, Difficult

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• I care about writing music and playing my music.

  Carla Bruni

  Writing, Care, I Care

  "Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: 'The Real Me Is Much More Simple'" by Susan Welsh, abcnews.go.com. August 01, 2008.

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• I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

  Yanni

  Writing, Frustration, Waiting

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• In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

  Leo Ornstein

  Writing, Important, Pieces

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• Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.

  Patti Stanger

  Breakup, Song, Writing

  “Patti Stanger Plays Matchmaker for Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Jennifer Lawrence” by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. January 19, 2013.

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• My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

  Taryn Manning

  Brother, Writing, Singing

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• Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

  Conrad Hall

  Writing, Shadow

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• I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Writing, Broadway, Berlin

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• Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

  Herbie Hancock

  Husband, Father, Writing

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• I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Clever, Writing

  "Riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna tells Miley Cyrus she wants to collaborate". www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2014.

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• My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

  Amy Lee

  Dream, Writing, Film

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• I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Writing, Process, Therapeutic

  "Lisa Marie Presley: ‘Don’t Cry, Daddy’". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit.

  Frederick Buechner

  Art, Real, Believe

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• What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.

  John Cage

  Writing, Order, Play

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