Music Writing Quotes
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Music Writing Quotes & Sayings
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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
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 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
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
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
— Joni Mitchell
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
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
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
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
The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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
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
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
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
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
— Elvis Costello
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
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
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
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
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
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
