Writing Music Quotes (page 4)

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• lyrics
• song
• song lyric

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. Jello Biafra

• writing
• earth
• god

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. Ludwig van Beethoven

• beautiful
• beauty
• music

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to. Joanna Newsom

• one day
• rock
• play

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker. Gemma Arterton

• music
• writing
• appeals

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. Bryan Adams

• words
• music
• writing

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

• dog
• hell
• writing

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

• friends
• writing
• betrayal

Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I listen to music while I’m writing. Haruki Murakami

• inspirational
• inspired
• life

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

• music
• writing
• musical

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. Gavin Bryars

• music
• stupid
• writing

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. Elvis Costello

• street
• little
• work

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

• music
• writing
• film

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

• music
• writing
• drawing

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. Layne Staley

• painting
• music
• suits

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