Ken Hill's Quotes

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

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

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

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

Music is about textures as well as melody.

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

People don't have fun making music all the time.

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

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

The most important thing is that you like the 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.

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.

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.

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.