Reed Morano Quotes

I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.

I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character.

I always do that for all of my characters. I built a music playlist for her... with songs she really likes.

I quietly work with my computer on the tour bus, and then I wait to make my more natural rhythms when I get home.

If I have an idea I want to put in a movie, I know what camera will make that look best, and I have ideas for future projects and stuff I'd like to build for those. I think it's just part of how I work, though.

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years.

The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.

Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

I think one artist to another artist, the best compliment you can pay one another, because the part of you that is inspired or creates something, to write a joke or a song, that's like the God-like part of a person.

The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'

I wake up in the morning, or the middle of the night when an idea comes through. My songwriting style, basically I just write down information given to me from the muse and how that works for songwriters. Record the muse and the muse delivers.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.