Composing Quotes

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

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

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

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.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

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.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

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.

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.

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.

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

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

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.

Poetry is composing for the breath.