#write

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#composer #having #idea #night #nighttime

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. ↗

— Louise Brown

#could #entertaining #fear #i #long

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. ↗

— Louise Brown

#commission #doing #other #plenty #publishers

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#any #go #going #i #i do

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#any #being #i #i remember #insistent

I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play. ↗

— Gary Burton

#felt #his #i #i am #like

I've never had writer's block. ↗

— David Byrne

#had #i #never #writer

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#am #because #day #doing #every

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#any #end #how #react #scene

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it? ↗

— Humphrey Carpenter

#baby #believe #came #ceiling #flew