Musical Creation Quotes

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.

Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

When I go into the studio I just want to make something that feels good.

Writing a song is a long road. Or it can be.

However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is going to play.” This is called composing. But last night, the Composer was not muttering. He was not humming. He was not moving, or even breathing. This is called decomposing.

Before I started writing my album, I didn't tell people many things. But because I'm going to the studio every day and telling strangers my deepest and darkest emotions, it's made me more of an open book. I wear my heart on my sleeve a lot more now than I did.

I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.

When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.

I guess the most emotional part is when I have that moment when I end up writing something that I really, really love. So not only is there the emotional connection with the music that's being created, but there's also the magic of the fact that you're essentially creating something from nothing.

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

Writing 'Monitor Mix' was a very edifying and inspiring few years.

I created 'You Can't Stop Me' without trying. There was nothing premeditated about that record.

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I think, "I have to put this in the song. I have no choice but to mention Greek Cypriots in this song." It's a little internal challenge to myself. Like creating little imaginary rituals in yourself to help the song go from nonexisting to existing.

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what we can work with.