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Authors
Ken Hill
British
Playwright
About the author
Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Art
#Music
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.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Being
#Writing
#Song
#Tools
#Selling
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.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Goal
The most important thing is that you like the music.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Music
The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Life
#Music
The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Voice
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.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Time
#Open
#Inspiration
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.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Want
#Goal
#Choices
#Tools
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.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Will
#Song
Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Idea
#Song
#Emotion
People don't have fun making music all the time.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Time
#People
#Fun
#Music
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Goal
#Composers
Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Promise
#Childhood
Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Art
#Music
#Inspiring
Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Food
#Body
Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Time
I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Work
#Ideas
#Song
If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#People
#Will
#Music
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Will
#Flowers
Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Mistakes
Music is about textures as well as melody.
Ken Hill,
British
Playwright
#Music