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Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music. -- Skitch Henderson
I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music. -- Benjamin Booker
I just want to keep writing music. -- Lady Gaga
I listen to music constantly while writing. -- Orson Scott Card
I never listen to music when I'm writing. -- Ben Fountain
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. -- Martin Mull
Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really. -- Kate Bush
But I never listen to music while I'm writing. -- Stephen Greenblatt
I care about writing music and playing my music. -- Carla Bruni
Music is an important part of my writing process. -- Peter James
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work. -- George Gershwin
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. -- Gavin Bryars
I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies. -- Alanis Morissette
The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise. -- Darren Criss
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever. -- Ryan Tedder
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing. -- Yann Tiersen
I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception. -- Jimmy Carl Black
I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it. -- Neal Shusterman
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process. -- Lisa Marie Presley
I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music. -- Brandon Boyd
I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music. -- Leo Ornstein
I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian following. I love writing kids' music. -- John Tesh
I'm composing and writing music. -- Anthony Hopkins
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. -- Martin Mull
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes -- Joseph Joubert
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Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide. -- Jessica Bell
Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide." -- Jessica Bell
Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music. -- Lisa Lopes
Writing a poem is making music with words and space. -- Arnold Adoff
Writing music is my one and only passion and joy. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Writing music is just something that I was born to do. -- Joan Armatrading
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. -- Conrad Hall
I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour. -- Avicii
Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music. -- John Steinbeck
I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked. -- Andre Previn
I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. -- Barry Gibb
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. -- Jessica Hagedorn
I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music. -- Antonio Banderas
I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music. -- Max Schneider
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it. -- Stephen Sondheim
Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color. -- Adam Young
I think there's no purpose for writing music if it is not meaningful. -- Darren Fletcher
I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it. -- Seungri
Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever. -- Kris Allen
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor. -- Leo Ornstein
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. -- Layne Staley
I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. -- Brendan Fletcher
As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. -- Anthony Minghella
Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs. -- Jeff Bridges
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write. -- Amy Winehouse
I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to. -- Joanna Newsom
I was writing music for the sake of writing music; it was just fun. -- Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. -- Jill Scott
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music. -- Anthony Davis
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. -- T. J. Miller
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write. -- Kris Allen
I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes. -- Kendrick Lamar
I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff. -- Julie Delpy
My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music. -- Taryn Manning
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences. -- Lincoln Child
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer. -- Alexander Ludwig
When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene. -- Charli XCX
I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever. -- SonReal
I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing. -- Sky Ferreira
I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring. -- Carrie Brownstein
I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself. -- Thomston
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing." -- Harvey Pekar
It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience. -- Alessandro Nivola
I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music. -- Stan Getz
Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience. -- Mark Hoppus
As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music. -- John Williams
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance. -- Anthony Kiedis
I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future. -- Sonny Rollins
Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling. -- Erika M. Anderson
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling. -- Cass McCombs
You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy. -- Larry Wilmore
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. -- Joni Mitchell
I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal. -- Billy Joel
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. -- Elvis Costello
For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones. -- Sefi Atta
I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music. -- Taylor Swift
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. -- Truman Capote
My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film. -- Amy Lee
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. -- Harrison Birtwistle
I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. -- Maya Angelou
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes. -- Charles de Lint
"Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc. -- Matthew Carter
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. -- Jaron Lanier
I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train. -- Nell Freudenberger
It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing. -- Nitin Sawhney
I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection. -- Wayne Shorter
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. -- Jello Biafra
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. -- Truman Capote
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. -- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level. -- Drake
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. -- Yanni
I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world. -- Ishmael Reed
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music. -- Paul Weller
I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great. -- Ben E. King
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four. -- Peter Drucker
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me. -- Chuck Ragan
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. -- Werner Herzog
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me. -- Bill Hicks
Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work. -- Burning Spear
I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music. -- Zach Condon
I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create. -- Michael Jackson
Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music. -- Noel Gallagher
If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual. -- Melanie Martinez
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me. -- Austin Carlile
I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written. -- Kesha
I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative. -- Joanna Noelle Levesque
Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there's Facebook, and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there's YouTube~? -- Lisa Bedrick
Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there's Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there's YouTube. -- Lisa Bedrick
I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that. -- Dan Fogelberg
I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative. -- Joanna Noelle Levesque
As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing. -- Sheryl Crow
Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd. -- Caroline Polachek
I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life. -- Ted Nugent

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