A Quote by Lukas Foss

Composing is like making love to the future.

Lukas Foss

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Composing Future Like Love Making Making Love

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Lukas Foss
German - Composer
August 15, 1922 - February 1, 2009

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

Casey Abrams

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

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

Ennio Morricone

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

John Francis

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

Jeet Gannguli

I just don't feel like composing music for films because I find there is too much pretense in the industry and creativity has been replaced by the sole thought of making money.

Rajesh Roshan

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

Mani Sharma

Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of the intricacies of operations and the impacts of the solutions they propose, just like entrepreneurs, but they aren’t afraid of confronting a blank piece of paper (or screen or board) and getting to work making something new.

Nathan Shedroff

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

William P. Perry

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

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 can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.

Erin O'Connor

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

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

Samuel Barber

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.