Composing Quotes

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.