I was always afraid to write music.
Dory Previn
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DORY PREVIN In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own...
DORY PREVIN I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultim...
LAURA MVULA I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music com...
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep...
MALCOLM ARNOLD I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot.
(on his decision not to vote)
LINCOLN KENNEDY I write my music.
T-PAIN I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.
BENJAMIN BOOKER I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring....
GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all ...
JOSS WHEDON I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was aca...
CARLISLE FLOYD I've always written music the way I felt it. I write for the public because I feel like the public, ...
HARRY WARREN I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
GORDON ATKINSON When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put th...
R. L. STINE I never listen to music when I write.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS This is the book I was always meant to write,
TRUMAN CAPOTE I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumen...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN Me becoming a person, instead of somebody who just hides and is afraid, has happened in tandem with ...
JOHN GRANT I write music with an exclamation point!
RICHARD WAGNER I think I was raised on all types of music. Of course there was the American pop music. There was al...
JOSE MATEO I want to write music that will outlive me.
RAY LAMONTAGNE It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of communit...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight ...
DREW BARRYMORE I was born to travel and write verse.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story w...
RAINBOW ROWELL In 'Citadel,' I play a very young father. When I first signed onto 'Hunky Dory,' I w...
ANEURIN BARNARD I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
CAROL BURNETT I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
CARL HIAASEN I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.
TOM FRESTON I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.
ALEX NORTH To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
DAVID GRANN I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins...
CHRIS YOUNG With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.
KATY PERRY I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
DANIEL ALARCON I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ...
WENDY COPE I'm not afraid to have my music digestible by different ages.
JON BELLION My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.
POST MALONE What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to writ...
PATTI SMITH Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN If they come back and assume that everything's going to be hunky-dory, I think they're mistaken.
RON WILSON Marlin: How do you know that nothing bad won't happen?
Dory: I don't.
FINDING NEMO I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
SEBASTIAN BACH I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'...
KATE DICAMILLO As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write so...
MIKE STOLLER I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always come...
ERIC WHITACRE Who is this Marlowe guy anyway? He's an ass. Threw him out. Threatened to have Ysmi sit on him if he...
KAREN CHANCE People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experiment...
NICKI MINAJ Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time...
, ALWAYS NOW, 1997 I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of...
STEPHEN JAY GOULD I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessin...
TARYN MANNING When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you... When I kisse...
CHICO MARX When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you... When I kisse...
ROY CROFT I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
KATE DICAMILLO When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst...
LAUREN DAIGLE Dory: What is it with men and asking for directions?
FINDING NEMO From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing ...
TYLER FARR I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
BRYAN ADAMS Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, re...
PATRICK CARMAN To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy...
HOZIER Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I...
OCTAVIA BUTLER It was always a music festival to us.
ASHLEY CAPPS But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
ADAM JONES I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I've always done music, since I was 13. I really don't know what I'd be doing if I wasn't doing musi...
ADAM KRIER My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like ...
CARMINE COPPOLA I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
LAURA BELL BUNDY Can I still write music? Do I have anything to say? Does anyone still care?
NINE INCH NAILS I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised mu...
JOE ZAWINUL I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance...
NADIA ALI I've always loved gospel, ... My mom was involved in church music. I sang a lot in church. It's an o...
JACK HALL I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
JOAN DIDION At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and wri...
DIDO ARMSTRONG He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOV I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level ...
AXL ROSE The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any k...
VIRGIL THOMSON I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
CARTER BURWELL I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write musi...
DONALD GLOVER I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
P. J. HARVEY Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to wri...
NEIL PEART I've always made music that was representative of real life.
ERIC CHURCH I have always been afraid of banks.
ANDREW JACKSON I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
BRYAN ADAMS I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually s...
ZEDD I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my...
WILL SELF It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to d...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOV I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for ...
NOBUO UEMATSU When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for...
PETE TOWNSHEND There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.
BEN MEZRICH Margo, they're afraid of us. They're afraid of everything.' And then I kept on talking without reall...
JAMES PATTERSON So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut any...
TED NELSON When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from perso...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like...
KENNY G Very seldom do I write words and have somebody put the music to them. If I'm writing lyric and music...
PAUL WILLIAMS I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Dory: This is the Ocean silly, we're not the only two in here.
FINDING NEMO But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving...
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