Top 319 Composing Quotes & Sayings

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

Composing is like making love to the future.

I'm composing and writing music.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

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

I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has to go out. It has to become sounds and be written. It's an emotion that you can't repress.

My hobby is my profession, and therefore, I keep on composing creatively.

Composing is an emotional thing.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

While composing the music for 'Romeo,' I will be very versatile.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

When I was composing for 'The Villain,' I looked at it as a fan and came up with tunes accordingly.

I have completed 21 years of composing music in Indian films.

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

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

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

At the age of 11, I started composing and my first composition was sung by my father.

Composing mortals with immortal fire.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

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

I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

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?

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

Composing music is hard work.

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

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

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

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Composing music is what makes me happy.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

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

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

Composing music for 'Mungaru Male 2' is a big responsibility and challenge.

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

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

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

I see myself composing for Hindi films as well as international stuff.

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.

I used to do most of my composing at a little table in a cafe. Composing for 52 instruments, I had to figure out how to accommodate myself to the small table.

Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

I like composing music, but I love being with my family.

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

I love composing songs for Hrithik because he is a talented dancer.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

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

I have no fears or inhibitions while composing. It's a way of expressing myself.

There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.

Composing a melody or a western song is easier than composing a commercial number.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

I love composing music and it's like a breath of fresh air for me.

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'