Composing Quotes

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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 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.

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