Hilary Hahn Quotes

There are no rules to writing a song.

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.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

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

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.

I've got so many melodies in my head.

I always enjoyed writing music; things pop into my head every day.

If you have rules, you let creativity sleep.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

Music is all about creativity.

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

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

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

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.