Benjamin Britten Quotes

I am an inventor of music.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

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.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

You're always thinking about making new music.

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

I write my music.

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

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.

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

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

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

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

Making music is fantastic.

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.

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