John Tesh Quotes

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

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 write music visually.

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

I love getting time to write a piece of music that can settle in and set the tone of the show.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

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.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.

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

I write my music.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.