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
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally. – Ken Hill
If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it. – Ken Hill
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
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
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
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
I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn’t work with the song I was currently composing. – Ken Hill
Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up. – Ken Hill
