Quotes About Writing Music

#1. Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

Enya

#2. I'm composing and writing music.

Anthony Hopkins

#3. 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

#4. But you've got to have style in whatever you do -- writing, music, painting, fashion, boxing, anything.

Miles Davis

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

Adam Young

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of the song is, or the passion behind the lyrics.

Nikki Sixx

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

Joan Armatrading

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#14. I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

Paul Eenhoorn

#15. I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.

Wayne Shorter

#16. Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

Lisa Lopes

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

Peter Drucker

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

Cass McCombs

#19. I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

Neal Shusterman

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

Anthony Kiedis

#21. As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.

Ella Henderson

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can't disconnect the act of writing music from the act of prayer. If anyone tries to stop me working, it feels like someone is trying to stop me from taking communion.

John Tavener

#25. 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

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

Amy Winehouse

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

Avicii

#28. I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

Brandon Boyd

#29. I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

Ted Nugent

#30. 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

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

Sefi Atta

#32. I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.

Charlyne Yi

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. I took lessons since I was little; I used to pay for my own singing lessons and take myself. Just take the bus when I was a kid and go. But I'd been writing music for years, since the smallest age.

Rebecca Ferguson

#36. Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Gin Wigmore

#37. People ask me all the time which I would prefer doing more, but I honestly can't say. When I'm filming, I'm like, 'No, this is my favorite,' and when I'm writing music and recording and performing, it's like, 'This is definitely it.'

Cassie Steele

#38. I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

Ellie Goulding

#39. Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.

Tunde Adebimpe

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

Seungri

#41. 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

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

Jello Biafra

#43. 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

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

Erika M. Anderson

#45. 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

#46. I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

Adam Hicks

#47. 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

#48. I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.

Maury Yeston

#49. I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.

Lorde

#50. I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

Billy Joel

#51. 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

#52. There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.

Edgar Winter

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

Conrad Hall

#54. Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

Josephine De La Baume

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

Amy Lee

#56. Besides writing music and surfing, I like to simply chill with my friends. Watching movies and going out to eat are often my prime choices for a day off.

James Maslow

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. There's something about these moments when we're writing music that I absolutely love. All my worries and thoughts about everything wrong in my life seem to go away for the short times we write together. It's nice.

Anonymous

#61. Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

CeeLo Green

#62. Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

Charles De Lint

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

Darren Fletcher

#64. I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

Tori Kelly

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

Peter Hook

#71. Writing music is my therapy. It's very purifying!

Amy Lee

#72. I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the music part of your brain for a minute?' but I really can't! It's my form of therapy.

Kellin Quinn

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

Joanna Newsom

#74. 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

#75. When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft melodies. But then, as I got better on the guitar, I started exploring different sounds.

Kiesza

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

Chuck Palahniuk

#81. I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

Andre Previn

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

Leo Ornstein

#83. 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

#84. When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.

Bat For Lashes

#85. 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

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

Michael Jackson

#87. Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

Warren Cuccurullo

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

Caroline Polachek

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

Taryn Manning

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

Lisa Marie Presley

#91. 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

#92. I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

Jamie Blackley

#93. Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

George Gershwin

#94. Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

Jason Robert Brown

#95. I just want to keep writing music.

Lady Gaga

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

Alanis Morissette

#97. I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that I would appreciate as a music fan. That's how we conduct ourselves, be it in writing music or playing it live.

Buzz Osborne

#98. 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

#99. I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.

James Wolpert

#100. 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