Quotes About Expression

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

I would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for orchestrating and composing, and I think she would be really engaging to work with.

I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

I keep a composition book with me at all times to write rhymes, to write down ideas, write down my thoughts, you know just so I don't forget any ideas.

It was always my dream to do non-film music, where I'm the voice and face of my composition.

I won't change myself and compromise myself, but I will make my music to be in the conversation with everyone else's.

As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

There's a lot of compromises, but that's what a great record should be, really.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

My compulsion is to create things.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

I am a compulsive writer.