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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.


Jack Prelutsky

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I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.
AUSTIN BUTLER I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.
ADAM SCOTT Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing...
THE EDGE The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm no...
TAYLOR HANSON I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or po...
JAZMINE SULLIVAN I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon...
RIVERS CUOMO I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my per...
MAIA MITCHELL Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research ...
MINDY KALING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage w...
JOHN ZORN If a guy can play Guitar Hero with me and sit at home and watch the Food Network and read magazines ...
BLAKE LIVELY The biggest way I stay motivated is to run with a group of friends. Sometimes it's hard to get g...
ALLYSON FELIX I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I thi...
EVAN DANDO I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after...
ELLEN BURSTYN We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's...
BRITTANY HOWARD I've gotten to wear such beautiful clothes and had such a variety and it's just been so nice...
LEIGHTON MEESTER It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much...
TOM COLICCHIO I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why...
VERONICA ROTH That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew...
DAVID AMRAM When I try to relax, it's more Swedish rock, softer music, and I go out and do fun stuff. I play...
HENRIK LUNDQVIST What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, ve...
DAN ROSENSWEIG It helps me keep things in perspective, and sometimes it helps me forget. Whenever I think things ar...
VICTORIA MICHAELS I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so...
CHARLIE ROWE See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to imp...
RACHAEL HARRIS I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge musi...
HUNTER HAYES I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way ...
BUZZ OSBORNE There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If ...
CHARLES DE LINT I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for...
R. A. SALVATORE I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because...
OWAIN YEOMAN When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be ...
ASHLEY MONROE Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and ...
MEG CABOT For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep i...
PAT METHENY Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a ...
KHALED HOSSEINI Sometimes, you pinch yourself. I get to do such incredibly fun things with people who are of such an...
DAVID COSTABILE I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick ...
SCOTT IAN If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen...
ZACH WOODS While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me igno...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: wr...
ROB THOMAS For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the ...
MARK KNOPFLER I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it's not - it's someone els...
KEHLANI In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's...
KELIS All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. An...
GUY CLARK I love dressing for different occasions and having dress codes. For me, it's such a fun thing to...
MARGHERITA MISSONI I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around...
DWIGHT YOAKAM It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and fo...
DIPLO I do love brash pop music. It's fun.
ROMY MADLEY CROFT Country music is me, it's what I've grown up with, and it's what I do.
SCOTTY MCCREERY People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's ...
SIA The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I ke...
HARLAN COBEN Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music c...
JUICY J With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want...
BILL PULLMAN I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'...
KATE DICAMILLO I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it&...
EMMA ROBERTS I wanted to be around a 4:50, but I was happy with this. Sometimes (being pushed) helps me. I probab...
LEAH GINGRICH I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And...
DAN GILROY Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly ...
SYD BARRETT Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise be...
ROBERT REDFORD Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that ...
OLIVIA D'ABO I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you kno...
POST MALONE I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live sho...
FLUME When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never v...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA After a tough match, I'll do an ice bath, and that's really good for recovery because it hel...
ANA IVANOVIC Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's gi...
STEVE WINWOOD I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts fiv...
ALEX TURNER Training isn't fun for me. I do it because it's what my body needs, and I have a standard. I...
GIANCARLO STANTON It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like ...
SAM ROCKWELL When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm wr...
BENNY BLANCO I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was ...
M. WARD Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?...
MICHELLE KWAN I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music i...
CASS MCCOMBS I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a ...
KYLIE MINOGUE I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps...
JAMIE FOXX The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's...
CAM When people recommend to me a book for personal reasons, that's what makes it fun to read. It...
NELL ZINK 'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off....
CATHERINE TATE I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He'...
DHANI HARRISON I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and wil...
GORDON PARKS When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing...
ALEX LIFESON For me, the reason I keep working out and want to get bigger and focus on staying fit is because whe...
RYAN SHECKLER In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It&...
ETGAR KERET I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long ...
ASTRO I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone...
CHARLIE PUTH I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to m...
CHARLIE HADEN For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we ...
DENIS LEARY I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come f...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form o...
NICK CANNON Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to d...
CHRIS KATTAN Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.
EL DEBARGE I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best trick...
BJORK The most important element to jazz music is being able to improvise. You learn the language of the m...
ERIC ESSEX Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my gran...
CALEB LANDRY JONES When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around an...
PAUL LIEBERSTEIN If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play ...
GEORGE BENSON 'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this tra...
LUIS FONSI I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorou...
AVICII When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me...
JEREMY SPENCER A successful competition for me is always going out there and putting 100 percent into whatever I...
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JACK SCALIA There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
JACK SCALIA I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that ser...
JACK SCALIA I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
JACK SCALIA You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
JACK SCALIA But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
JACK SCALIA Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. ...
JACK SCALIA Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
JACK SCALIA I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent ...
JACK REYNOR I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor c...
JACK REYNOR With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play...
JACK REYNOR As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.
JACK REYNOR I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.
JACK REYNOR If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain p...
JACK REYNOR 'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a subs...
JACK REYNOR When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and a...
JACK REYNOR In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be ...
JACK REYNOR 'Star Wars' was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really i...
JACK REYNOR I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City ...
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