Composing Quotes
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Composing is improvisation slowed down.
Wayne Shorter -
I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Every bit of theorizing I’ve ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing.
George Perle -
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
John Stuart Mill -
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.
Frederick Marryat -
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb -
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 -
When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.
Sivamani
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I am a morning person and start work, whether composing, rehearsing, preparing syllabi/tests, or proofing an article or manuscript, early in the morning before the flood of e-mails, phone calls and disturbances, usually by my four cats! I like to do projects that I can become passionate about - women in the arts and mentoring students. Like all of us, if we enjoy what we are doing, it's not work, and we might even get paid for it!
Barbara Harbach -
I had been composing but I didn't know I was. When I realized that this was what I had been doing, I began to take it seriously.
Alan Hovhaness -
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 -
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.
Esa-Pekka Salonen -
It is hard work composing a song for a film and showing it to makers: 50% of the tune remains the same, and the remaining 50% is changed to suit the script.
Mohit Chauhan -
Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.
Alan Menken
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Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.
Sivamani -
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 -
Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.
Sandra Bullock -
That's why I'm so passionate about making music for movies because you dive in and find the best ideas to bring tolife a collective piece of art. ... Composing is not a job for me. And that explains why I never stop. Even though it's tough on your body and your brain and the sacrifices you have to make, what can I do? I'm passionate about it so I never stop.
Alexandre Desplat -
I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.
Esa-Pekka Salonen -
Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
William P. Perry
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I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
Steve Swallow -
Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
Satyajit Ray -
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
Morton Feldman -
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart