Writing Music Quotes - Page 4

• I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

  Avicii

  Writing, Hard Times, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

  Brian McKnight

  Writing, Records, Release

  "Musician Brian McKnight Uses 'More Than Words'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 18, 2013.

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• I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Writing, Two, Together

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

  Joan Armatrading

  Writing, Born, Music Is

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• It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Writing, People

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• I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Writing

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• My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Writing, Guitar, Computer

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• I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

  Joanna Newsom

  Beautiful, Writing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

  Leo Ornstein

  Moving, Writing, Pieces

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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'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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• 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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• 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've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

  Howard Shore

  Writing, Class, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of the time when I'm in Australia I'm not really working, it seems. I'm just at home, getting on with renovating my house or writing music or whatever. So I get back to doing all the stuff that I naturally do. Whereas if I'm away working, that's all there is to do, is to concentrate on the work.

  Guy Pearce

  Home, Writing, Australia

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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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 was writing music for the sake of writing music; it was just fun.

  Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

  Fun, Writing, Sake

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music.

  Caleb Shomo

  Writing, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Reading, Writing, Ideas

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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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• Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Writing, Creative, Process

  "She & Him". Interview with Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. April 21, 2008.

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• It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Writing, Funny Things, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

  Seungri

  Writing, Study, Continuing

  Source: ygfamilyy.tumblr.com

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• I'm definitely inspired by music; I feel like I can express a part of myself, a part of my heart and my soul, that I can't express just acting by writing music or singing music. It takes the emotions to another level. I feel really connected to something else, you know.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Writing, Heart, Soul

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