Composing Quotes

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

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

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

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

Whatever you do... put your heart and soul into it!

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?

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

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

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.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

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.

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

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.

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.

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

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.

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.

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

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

Composing is like making love to the future.

I'm composing and writing music.

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.

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

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

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

Composing mortals with immortal fire.