Ken Hill Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• The most important thing is that you like the music.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• People don’t have fun making music all the time.

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

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

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• Music is about textures as well as melody.

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

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

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• Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

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

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• 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.

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• I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn’t work with the song I was currently composing.

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

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

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Ken Hill (22)

Birth:	28th January, 1937
Death:	23rd January, 1995
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Director, Playwriter

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