Quotes About Writing

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

I've always regretted the fact that I've never formally studied and learned the mechanics of writing music.

I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

I never listen to music when I write.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.