Composing Quotes

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

Composing music is what makes me happy.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

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

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

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.

And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan

I'm composing and writing music.

All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.

When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

Composing mortals with immortal fire.

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

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

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

Composing is like making love to the future.

I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.

I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.

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

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.

As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!