Writing Music Quotes

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

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

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

I write music every day.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

Even listening to a lot of other music inspires me, too. Like I'll find something and be like, "I love this group!" And I want to write something that's kind of like this.

To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel confident enough to move on to the next major chapter.

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

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

Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus.

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.