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I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music. — Rob Roberge

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. — Marianne Wiggins

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27. About eleven minutes later he was writing his own music. — Ron David

I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music. — Billy Sherwood

If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them. — Bear McCreary

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that. — Bucky Pope

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music. — Ryan Tedder

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative. — Jojo

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music. — Taylor Swift

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

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs. — Stephen Sondheim

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter,
but something that sits between writing and music — Abdelkebir Khatibi

I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. — E.L. Doctorow

I have loved music since I was a little kid. I was always wanted to write the music I hear in my head and have it be shared with the world. — Jackson Harris

Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it. — Paris Hilton

I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting. — Kevin Schmidt

Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place. — The Script

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

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train. — Nell Freudenberger

I don't write music for sissy ears. — Charles Ives

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

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. — Joni Mitchell

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression. — Edgar Winter

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color. — Adam Young

New country music comprises about five percent of what I hear per year. I enjoy it, but I don't really take note of who's singing it or writing it. — Rivers Cuomo

It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to it. — Toby Lightman

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

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing. — Harvey Pekar

Music pulls words from the heart and inspires brilliance. — Court Young

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. — Kurt Vonnegut

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't. — Kevin Costner

To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor. — Dani Shapiro

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

My thesis statement would be - Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music. — Chris Thile

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience. — Oliver

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write. — Jeff VanderMeer

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating. — Johannes Brahms

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well. — Aharon Appelfeld

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. — Jaron Lanier

I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole. — Sarah J. Maas

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music. — John Steinbeck

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music. — Max Schneider

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write. — John D. MacDonald

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing. — Alexandra Daddario

We all decided that from the start, me and Richey can't write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty. — Nicky Wire

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well . — Zoe Kravitz

With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience. — Mike Romano

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing ... or producing. — Andrew Taylor

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The power of classical music turns my words into fire. — A.D. Posey

Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing. — Peter Hoeg

Just me, my music, and the voices in my head. — Christie Silvers

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it. — Mark Mothersbaugh

Writing music is my therapy. It's very purifying! — Amy Lee

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. — Brendan Fletcher

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way. — Tom Wolfe

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing. — Sarah McLachlan

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales. — Harry Partch

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. — Noel Gallagher

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses. — Michael Jackson

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time. — Cliff Martinez

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring. — Carrie Brownstein

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

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software. — Yukihiro Matsumoto

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, Let's just write some scary music. — Ozzy Osbourne

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

At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do ... we'll quit. — Caleb Followill

I've been writing and making my own music for a long time. — Patti Scialfa

I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing. — David Archuleta

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart. — Terry Brooks

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music. — Daniel Johnston

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics. — Kandi Steiner

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

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. — Barry Gibb

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write. — Amy Winehouse

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. — Elvis Costello

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. — Maya Angelou

I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music — Michael Tolcher

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

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process. — Dean Bakopoulos

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

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

And I think: I could do this. Fuck writing a book about a fat girl and a dragon. I could be a music journalist, instead. — Caitlin Moran

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it. — Naturi Naughton

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write. — Shane McCrae

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything? — Duke Ellington

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing. — Michel Faber

When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music. — Anthony Kiedis

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work. — Burning Spear

The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around. — Karen Russell

Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters. — Shriram Iyer

I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist. — Claudio Simonetti

I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever. — Joe Jonas

The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing. — Ambrose Bierce

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music. — Carrie Brownstein

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something. — Henry Jackman

If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. — Billy Joel

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing. — Yann Tiersen