Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I just want to keep writing music.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I love writing songs.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

Composing is my life blood.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

It is easy to write unthinking music.

When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.