Gioachino Rossini Quotes

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

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

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

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

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I'm not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I'm happy.

I've got so much material; like, it feels as if every day I'm coming up with so many riffs.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.

I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth of tunes, and they were really pretty -but totally meaningless. So in the end I came up with material I liked. We worked on The Lion King for four years, but I wasn't toying until the last three-and-a-half weeks properly. On Crimson Tide, on the other hand, I just went in and within seconds I knew what I wanted.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.