Writing Music Quotes

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

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

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

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.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

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

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.

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.

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.

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.

I never listen to music when I write.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

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.

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

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

I'm composing and writing music.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

I just want to keep writing music.

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

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

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

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

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.

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

I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.

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

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

Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.

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

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.

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.

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.

Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.