Quote

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

— Georges Bizet

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

— Dar Williams

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

— Dweezil Zappa

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

— Tom Waits

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

— John Hodgman

Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.

— Albert Murray

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

— Shakira

Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.

— Billy Collins

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

— Lincoln Child

✗Opposing Perspectives

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

— Darren Criss