Scott Bakula Quotes

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

Some people ask me what instruments I play, but usually I'll just say I'm more of a producer or a composer or songwriter - those are my strongest suits: arranging and composing.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for British pop music that did pretty well, but I've mainly been working on my own stuff with Duncan Sheik.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

Making music is fantastic.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

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

For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

I am an inventor of music.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I think of myself as a film composer.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

In the case of, like, Childish Gambino, he is someone who is a writer by trade, so he is very meticulous about how he writes his ideas. I don't do this with a lot of artist, but he would give me a treatment that he wants to do, and I'll go off that; then I'll give him feedback and pitch him my ideas.

I always really wanted to do film scoring, largely because I hate writing lyrics. I just won't do it. I need help with the words.

I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of score work. That said, if someone thinks what I do specifically would work for their film, then, of course, let's see what we can do.

The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.

My approach to making music has always been making ideas and developing them. Sometimes I develop them all the way by myself. The other part of development is I will work with my friends who are just some of the best producers in the world, give them an idea.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

We're always recording music, writing songs.