Morton Gould Quotes

My life revolves around music.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

The great love of my life is music.

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

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

Music is my love.

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

Music is my life.

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

Music is such a part of my soul.

Music has always been my passion. It was not a hobby or something I can take out of my life.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

My only passion is music.

Music has been my greatest passion forever.

Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess.

For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.

My passion is music. That's where my heart is.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

Music has always been so integral to my life. It's always been my work and my passion.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible way.

I just have this real love and connection with what I'm doing when I play music.

Music is always my first priority.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.