Allen Neuharth Quotes

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn`t work with the song I was currently composing.

Food is your body`s fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

I have had some people tell me that composing music is easy, and that anyone can do it. Yes, anyone can do it, but few can really do it.

The most important thing is that you like the music.

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

Quite often when I write a song, I think back to a moment in my life. I use what has happened in my life as an inspiration to make music.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven`t done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn`t all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.

If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.

People don`t have fun making music all the time.

The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of.

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.