Top 1200 Music Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time To Love" are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make...The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do...It is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.

I'm more of a songwriter. I love writing songs. I love writing my songs. It's always been writing for me, and it makes it different when you're writing for yourself.

I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.

I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

I started writing music in a French way: more focused on lyrics than melody.

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

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

I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.

I wasn't letting people in with the music writing process, and for a long time, I thought I was hard to work with.

At first, I was using my sister Susan's lyrics, as I could not write myself, only the music. And then one day, she and I had a fight, and she threatened to take away the lyrics from all the songs that I put the lyrics to, so it was that day that I began writing my first lyric to the music.

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

Most of the time you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.

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

Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and enjoyment doesn't mean they are writing well.

For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.

I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.

I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students.

When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.

I am a genderless sea creature who has been writing and studying music since I was 12.

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.

When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.

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

I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring!

People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes

My mother at a young age put me in bilingual, so my strength is really more in Spanish. Even though I live and I was born and raised in the States, you know, in the Bronx, in Spanish I get my point across. And when I'm writing music, when I'm doing music, it's easier for me, and I know exactly how to express myself.

Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.

The reason we fall in love with certain music and writing is we connect with it on a very personal level.

Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.

You know how you have that one thing you would do even if you're not getting paid to do it? That's what writing music is for me.

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I started doing that about two years later. Finally, I said, "Oh, that means what I really want to do is to be a composer." But when I was coming up in Texas, there was segregation. There was no schools to go to. I taught myself how to read and how to start writing.

I really like writing for specific projects. It's a whole different way of writing when you have certain guidelines and a theme you're writing to. It's very inspiring.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

We want to be good at our craft, whether it's writing music or playing it live.

Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm writing about and my whole self - when I began the book - become entwined. It's soon hard to tell them apart. The voice I'm trying to explore directs my own perceptions and thoughts.

If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.

The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for it, because, you know, with the advent of the computer and online and downloading and all these things, they have destroyed - that stuff has destroyed the record business, not the music business, but the record business. The music business is well, and it's alive and thriving. Now, I hope something happens to turn it back around to the point whereas it's - you're earning a living from writing your songs, from your work, you know, because it's not like that anymore.

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.