Composing Quotes

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

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

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.