Composing Quotes

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.

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

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

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.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

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

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

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.

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?

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.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Composing is my life blood.