Top 1200 Music Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the writing. I think that if the writing is good and the point of view is strong, the writing is going to take care of itself.

I feel like I'll be writing World War 2 music the rest of my life.

The music is the thing. I am not writing for critics; I don't want to become a personality.

Oh, I'd been writing cartoonish music pretty much all along.

I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.

You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination.

On the craft level, writing for children is not so different from writing for adults. You still have to have a story that moves forward. You still have to have the tools of the trade down. The difference arises in the knowledge of who you're writing for. This isn't necessary true of writing for adults.

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

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

I think my music being referred to as "cinematic" has a lot to do with people just not being used to listening to instrumental music without watching a film. I'm still pretty convinced of that. You'll play Chopin in place of something average and like, "Wow, that'd be great in a film." People say it every time, swear to God. I don't think people have a good relationship with instruments and music anymore. But it's definitely visual; I started writing with this band because of the pictures. I can't really deny it either, you know?

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

When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part.

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation.

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

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

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.

The older I get, the more interest I have in writing other kinds of music.

When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically part of the team that's creating a film, and the music is a very important part, but it's just one part of many.

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

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

The things I want to focus on are music, writing, directing, and developing stuff.

When I am writing music, I sometimes envision a video playing alongside.

Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully.

Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and simply as possible. I like clean, unadorned writing. So writing for a younger audience was largely an exercise in making my prose even more clear and direct, and in avoiding complicated digressions.

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

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

I love writing about things I know, and I like to be very honest in my music.

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

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

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

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

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

I enjoyed writing in school. I don't know that I was all that good at it in school. I worked at it later. I feel comfortable writing now. I enjoy writing now. I suspect, like most college students, I viewed writing then to be more tedious.

I like so many kinds of music, and I work with so many kinds of music as a producer. When you work in 14 different genres, I find myself writing in those genres.

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work.

I'm writing music that people can grasp and hold on to... something that resonates. If you don't have that, then you have nothing.

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

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

I have always struggled with expressing emotion, I used to think I was a very hard person but music has shown me I'm a big softy! Writing songs to me really is like writing a diary, it's very private and very personal. My most emotional songs have been written alone in a locked room, I'm able to express myself there.

I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.

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

I actually often write about writing music and being in that zone.

Managing yourself, writing and performing your own music can teach you a lot.

In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that embraced and hungered for new music, as they did in the Classical period. I tell my students that they should just keep writing, write what pleases you, and don't worry about what people or critics may think about your music.

With Orff it is text, text, text - the music always subordinate. Not so with me. In 'Magnificat,' the text is important, but in some places I'm writing just music and not caring about text. Sometimes I'm using extremely complicated polyphony where the text is completely buried. So no, I am not another Orff, and I'm not primitive.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. [...] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. [...] It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work.

Writing songs, making music, and singing is important to me, and I do all three.

I always enjoyed writing music; things pop into my head every day.

There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.

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