Top 1200 Music Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything.

Musicians do music for the girls. We do music for the money. We do music for the recognition, for the rock and roll history. But we also do it because it's fun.

I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.

Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.

Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen in our lives, and there's music that's unique to that movie.

When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.

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.

I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

I've worked with Childish Gambino for so long, so I've learned that from those producing skills - how to really produce music - where, of course, it's about writing, but it's also about combining sounds and styles and genres.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

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

The thing about Springsteen, his music, although he's writing about, you know, New Jersey and Asbury Park, all of them places, it's blue-collar towns that, like - it's similar to Newcastle, where I'm from.

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies.

The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the music. That is everything.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the soul of humankind and so on, I don't know. But it has the same effect [as music]. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet.

Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.

Everything I do, I'm always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I'm playing music. When I'm showering, I've got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing.

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.

I try to listen to as much as possible. I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many different musicians, and I need to learn.

I think the music that speaks to me the most is music that is personal. And that's the music that I'm trying to make.

I listen to music all the time. I need music and I love music and I appreciate it. It inspires me.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys.

I think the music industry is something that's very separate from music. So, by always staying on the music side of it, I've found success.

To me, music is not a stunt. Music is not a joke. I take every lick of music that I've ever played very serious.

The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.

Allowing yourself to suck is the hard part of writing music. If you allow yourself to suck, you will probably write something better.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

Everyone loves to run with music in their ears, but when the music becomes adaptive, the music plays a more important role in the experience.

Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting process around a video, but when you're writing a song sometimes it'll be a very visual song.

I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.

I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.

I very much enjoy working with talented filmmakers who have a good sense for music, who have a strong feel for music and for what music can do in a film.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

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.

Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.