A Quote by Alexandre Desplat

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.

Alexandre Desplat

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Alexandre Desplat
French - Composer
Born: August 23, 1961

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.

Glenn Branca

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.

Krzysztof Penderecki

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

Mani Sharma

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

William P. Perry

I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.

Oneohtrix Point Never

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.

Lukas Foss

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

Samuel Barber

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.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

John Cage

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

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Sydney Smith

I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.

Richard Grossman

I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.

Steve Erickson

The most immediately gratifying thing about my work is conducting a large orchestra. But the long range payoff is composing because you've written something and it's there forever.

Henry Mancini

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

Pauline Oliveros

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

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