Quotes About Writing

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

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

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

I only write when listening to the music.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.