Top 1200 Composing Music Quotes & Sayings

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

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

Composing music is hard work.

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.

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

I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'

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

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for a film. That's a different art altogether.

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

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

I'm composing and writing music.

The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

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don't feel like composing music for films because I find there is too much pretense in the industry and creativity has been replaced by the sole thought of making money.

When I was younger, I worked for several years composing music for commercials, but I was very happy to give that up. I didn't really like it, it was a way of financing my bands.

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

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.

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

But synthesizer music has been accepted as emotional for long enough that it isn't a huge reach, conceptually, to think of a fake voice as 'emotional', especially since there's a human composing it.

All these years, I have never forgotten what my parents have given me, and that is why I take special pride in composing music based on ragas and used folk music in films like 'Apne Paraye.'

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.

I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music since I was that age - singing in musicals and taking lessons. Lots of lessons! Singing, dancing, acting, drums set. My mom pretty much had a full-time job carting me all over town six days a week.

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.

I have been working and composing music since 1986. Over the years, I have seen our music industry go through all kinds of transformation.

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

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?

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

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

Composing music is what makes me happy.

For musical compositions to reach a high level and to derive from spontaneity, of course, one has to do the necessary steps to learn the rules and regulations of composing high quality music.

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.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

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 would love to compose more fantasy music, whether it's for a film or a game. That genre has so much opportunity for harmonic experimentation, not to mention all the interesting instruments that become available when composing music for alien species and other worlds.

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

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

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.

I need to study more. I need to educate myself more - and not just in music, in everything - but especially in music and composing.

For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

I have not thought of pairing with somebody for music direction and will continue composing music by myself.

I consider composing music to the sequel of 'Ladies Tailor' which had music by Ilayaraaja as my biggest blessing.

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

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 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.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on Music, and stopped after chapter two. McCartney said he was concerned that if he learned more about how he does what he does (as far as composing music), he may not be able to do it anymore!

I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.

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

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

If composing music is like going to the gym in the morning, acting is like an additional session of yoga. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

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've been composing music for feature films since 2007. I've been creating music for films for 13 years and I totally enjoy and love doing that. However, I have a lot of music inside me which I want to share with you all in a different way.

Shook is the musical universe I created. I come from a classical and jazz background and my father is a jazz pianist, so my world bears largely the marks of this influence. As a sort of gateway, I started composing my own music on the computer at the age of 13. Before Shook, I had not yet discovered the kind of music I wanted to dedicate myself to, so I did a little of everything.

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

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.