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Music Writing Quotes

Pleasures. First look from morning's window. The rediscovered book. Fascinated faces. Snow, the change of the seasons. The newspaper. The dog. Dialectics. Showering, swimming. Old music. Comfortable shoes. Comprehension. New music. Writing, planting. Traveling. Singing. Being friendly Bertolt Brecht
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
Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance. Paul Auster
Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could devise. Music makes me write this sort of maundering adolescent nonsense without embarrassment. Music is in fact the dog's bollocks. Nothing else comes close. Stephen Fry
Haruki Murakami quote: "Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I..."
Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I listen to music while I’m writing. Haruki Murakami
Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood. Charles de Lint
Gavin Bryars quote: "Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th..."
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. Gavin Bryars
Elvis Costello quote: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's..."
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. Elvis Costello
Writing was never work for me. It had been the same for as long as I could remember: turn on the radio to a classical music station, light a cigarette or a cigar, open the bottle. The typer did the rest. All I had to do was be there. The whole process allowed me to continue when life itself offered very little, when life itself was a horror show. There was always the typer to soothe me, to talk to me, to entertain me, to save my ass. Basically that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my... Charles Bukowski
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. Enya
Jessica Hagedorn quote: "Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. Jessica Hagedorn
Layne Staley quote: "Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography,..."
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. Layne Staley
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. Truman Capote
Carrie Brownstein quote: "Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche..."
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true. Carrie Brownstein
Joan Armatrading quote: "Writing music is just something that I was born to do."
Writing music is just something that I was born to do. Joan Armatrading

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