quotes about Composing
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My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
-- Alex North -
Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
-- Arthur HoneggerSource : 1951 I Am a Composer.
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I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
-- Clara Schumann -
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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.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen -
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.
-- Franz Schubert -
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
-- Franz Schubert -
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
-- Gertrude Stein -
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Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
-- Gustav HolstSource : Gustav Holst, Michael Short, William Gillies Whittaker (1974). “Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker”, University of Glasgow French and German Publications
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What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
-- Gustav Mahler -
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.
-- Gustav Mahler -
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
-- Gyorgy Ligeti -
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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.
-- Henry Flynt -
The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
-- John Cage -
All of a sudden it hit me - If there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?
-- Len Lye -
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.
-- Lennie Tristano -
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I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.
-- Richard Meale -
All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.
-- Terry Bozzio -
I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.
-- Roscoe Mitchell -
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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.
-- William Bolcom