Writing Music Quotes

• I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Writing, Reason

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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Dance

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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• I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

  James Brown

  Music, Names, Tunes

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

  Noel Coward

  Music, Stars, Quality

  "MPD Opens Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward 4/16". www.broadwayworld.com. April 16, 2009.

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• There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

  Ronnie Wood

  Music, Running, Kind

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• Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Memories

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.88, Wordsworth Editions

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• Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Writing, Humor

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 1978

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• The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Strikes, Familiar

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• A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

  Mariah Carey

  Women, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Music

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.57, Samuel Butler

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

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Writing, Thank God

  Letter to Ferdinand Ries, 20 Dec. 1822

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• Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

  Robert Browning

  Music, Solitude, Inspirational Music

  Robert Browning, William Lyon Phelps (1910). “Robert Browning's complete works”

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• We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person.  Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want

  Jacque Fresco

  Success, Music, Running

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• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Writing, Music Is, Basic Things

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• Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

  George Gershwin

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Writing

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• Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

  Mark Hoppus

  Writing, Mean, Who I Am

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

  Kris Allen

  Writing, Guitar, Forever

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.

  Wayne Shorter

  Writing, Connections, Learning More

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

  Charles de Lint

  Writing, Different, Use

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Charles de Lint". Interview with Charles Tan, www.sfsignal.com. September 9, 2010.

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• I'm composing and writing music.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Writing, Composing

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