Creating Music Quotes

While the concept of the muse is noteworthy, the development of the muse has changed substantially in today's online world. The tables have practically turned as the artist who is responsible for creating music in today's world is now being the muse to others. They have been responsible for the creation of "fan art," a style of performance where people create new forms of media based off of existing creations.
It was originally that the muse was what prompted the artist to create something new. Today it has changed to where the artist is the muse to others in society. ~ Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it. ~ Son Lux

I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music, and I'm not saying there isn't an audience, because there is; because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket. ~ Brian McKnight

Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva. ~ Amish Tripathi

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting. ~ Werner Herzog

I love music so much. I've got something going all the time. I've gotta be singing. I've gotta be creating music, or I'm not happy. ~ Ashley Monroe

I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music. ~ Zach Condon

I just can't wait to continue creating music. ~ James Wolpert

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating. ~ Jessi Colter

I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words. ~ Matisyahu

The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to. ~ Thom Yorke

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different. ~ Nick Carter

You're creating music to pull people into a world, whether it be a visual medium where music is just one element, or a purely musical medium. Either way, you're trying to transport people and to create a connection. I've always felt that the best films and the best albums can be the best company. If people feel a little bit less alone because of something I had a hand in creating than I feel like I'm contributing to the world in a positive way. ~ Andrew Hollander

For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home. ~ Merzbow

Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music. ~ Robert J. Marks II

I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings. ~ Annie Lennox

Creating music fulfills me. It gives me purpose. It connects me with the world ... ~ Colbie Caillat

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. ~ Curtis Jackson

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live. ~ Rickie Lee Jones

I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great. ~ Ben E. King

Staying true to yourself and trusting your instincts is very important. I've learned this both through creating music, where I've always stayed focused on recording music that is true to who I am and to my fans, and through my recent health struggles, where I knew something more was going on than what I was hearing from different doctors; I had to trust myself and continue to pursue a diagnosis. ~ Avril Lavigne

I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that. ~ Will Smith

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood. ~ Avey Tare

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance. ~ Paul Lansky

Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song. ~ Mpho Koaho

Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just another idea of beautiful, being yourself and creating music that represents you and what you like. ~ Rapsody

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating. ~ Ice-T

I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy. ~ Freddie Mercury

I feel like I have a little bit of a fresh ear when creating music. I'm not trying to be like anything else, cuz I have no idea what anything else is like! ~ Katy Perry

Programmer Chris Camfield was in charge of implementing the tactical layer battle mechanics. A lifelong player of pencil-and-paper role-playing games as well as strategy board games, Camfield instinctively turned to RPG sourcebooks (tomes of information compiled to assist role players in creating more vibrant worlds) for more detail, taking advantage of the meticulous research published by other designers. ~ Anonymous

On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities. ~ George Gilder

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing. ~ Michael Tilson Thomas

Even more so in nonindustrialized cultures than in modern Western societies, music is and was part of the fabric of everyday life. ~ Daniel J. Levitin

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else. ~ Albert Camus

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms ... so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music. ~ Martin Luther

All his thoughts were of how lucky he was to inhabit such a beautiful earth, how lucky he had been to solve his problems with music, and how pleasant it was to look forward to another night of sleep and another day tomorrow, and the fresh morning, and the light that returns with the day. ~ E.B. White

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2. ~ Jennifer Grey

After a few minutes, the lull of the piano joins in,
and we play together. It's the most magical thing I've
ever experienced ~ Samantha Armstrong

I'm just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It's not really that big of a deal. ~ Gwen Stefani

Music is joy and sorrow, celebration and loss. healing and pain, bondage and freedom. Whatever you are... music is. ~ Angelique La Fon-Cox

I've lived in N.Y. and L.A. for many years, but I still gravitate to New Orleans - it's so unique and so European. There's nothing else like it in the country. It has its own music, its own food, its own style and its own way of life. ~ Bryan Batt

The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz music I listened to when I was eighteen years old, and like and admire it just as much. ~ Don DeLillo

I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that. ~ Dave Gahan

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available. ~ Jeanine Tesori

I think I'm probably gonna quit music. ~ Justin Bieber

You can just enjoy music without understanding it, muusic is a universal language. ~ Cl 2ne1

I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways. ~ Christopher Lloyd

He yearned for one long embrace with Sabina, yearned never to say another sentence, another word, to let his orgasm fuse with that orgiastic thunder of music. And lulled by that blissful imaginary uproar, he fell asleep. ~ Milan Kundera

It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it. ~ Joshua Bell

With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing. ~ Gunter Grass

So I cradle this average violin that knows
Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
The possibility of free declamation anchored
To a dull refrain ... ~ John Ashbery

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family. ~ Victoria De Los Angeles

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. ~ Kingsley Amis

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film. ~ Mick Jagger

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. ~ Francis Quarles

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. ~ Albert Camus

Their howls rose to the sky and twisted together until they were on, and the other beasts joined in too, all of their voices creating a wild, plaintive song of sorry and abandon and anger and love. ~ Dave Eggers

Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy. ~ Stewart Stafford

Nick began playing another piece - a beautiful one she'd never heard. The feelings in his eyes changed until they held love and compassion. "This is for you," he whispered. Mesmerized, she became lost in the emerald enchantment cast over her by his gaze and the seductive music. Although not releasing her from her cares, the music soothed away the harsh edges so they didn't cut so deep into her soul, giving her the strength to continue to bear them. ~ Debra Holland

Homer's Hymn to the Moon

Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition; dated 1818.
Daughters of Jove, whose voice is melody,
Muses, who know and rule all minstrelsy
Sing the wide-winged Moon! Around the earth,
From her immortal head in Heaven shot forth,
Far light is scattered - boundless glory springs;
Where'er she spreads her many-beaming wings
The lampless air glows round her golden crown.

But when the Moon divine from Heaven is gone
Under the sea, her beams within abide,
Till, bathing her bright limbs in Ocean's tide,
Clothing her form in garments glittering far,
And having yoked to her immortal car
The beam-invested steeds whose necks on high
Curve back, she drives to a remoter sky
A western Crescent, borne impetuously.
Then is made full the circle of her light,
And as she grows, her beams more bright and bright
Are poured from Heaven, where she is hovering then,
A wonder and a sign to mortal men.

The Son of Saturn with this glorious Power
Mingled in love and sleep - to whom she bore
Pandeia, a bright maid of beauty rare
Among the Gods, whose lives eternal are.

Hail Queen, great Moon, white-armed Divinity,
Fair-haired and favourable! thus with thee
My song beginning, by its music sweet
Shall make immortal many a glorious feat
Of demigods, with lovely lips, so well
Which minstre ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. ~ Mary Shelley

You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul. ~ Marc Allen

I believe in previous lives and the Muse - and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being by their own imperative to be born, via the offices of those willing servants of discipline, imagination and inspiration whom we call artists. ~ Steven Pressfield

I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The gift that you have is like music waiting to be played. You need only to find the instrument that will best bring it out. You alone can never play all the instruments, and your music might not find voice in all the instruments. All you can do is find the instrument that suits you best, play it as well as you can, and add your music to the great symphony of divine creation. ~ Kent Nerburn

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything. ~ Asa Butterfield

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn't. ~ Aaron Copland

The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French. ~ Lou Doillon

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ~ Gyorgy Ligeti

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. ~ Barry Gibb

The music industry over there seems to treat America like it's one territory even though they got offices in different parts of America - they're still quite sort of 'America is the territory.' ~ Sean Booth

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of. ~ Martin Gore

An entrepreneur is like a musician creating a new song. ~ Ehab Atalla

In search of myself, I have created myself. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Sad songs are not my strong suit. All the songs that have saved my life make you feel like driving with the top down or dancing in your room with your best friend. ~ J.C. Lillis

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music. ~ Gwen Stefani

Life meanwhile - real life, with its essential interests of health and sickness, toil and rest, and its intellectual interests in thought, science, poetry, music, love, friendship, hatred, and passions - went on as usual, independently of and apart from political friendship or enmity with Napoleon Bonaparte and from all the schemes of reconstruction. ~ Leo Tolstoy