Quotes on Writing Music

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.