Top 1200 Composing Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

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

All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play them in are a direct result of composing.

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

I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.

When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.

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

I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.

When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

I enjoy what I do. The only burden is the deadlines. Plus, composing background scores is a thankless job; it is not perceived as a significant thing.

It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own playing or on jazz?

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.

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

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

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

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

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

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

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

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

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

Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers me about Western music is that it doesn't have an esoteric dimension in the way the music of the East has, whether it be Byzantine chant, the music of the Sufis, or Hindu music.

I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

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

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel.

Singing and composing come naturally to me, but acting does not. I have worked at it and attended several workshops to learn the craft.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

When I'm by myself - composing or writing film scores - it's very lonely. I'm just sitting by myself in the studio.

Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

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

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

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

My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You can look at the music in several different ways. It's music for everybody.

When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.

G.O.O.D. Music is on top because G.O.O.D. Music is the culture. When you think of, you know, just every aspect from music, influence, fashion, art level. If it's not G.O.O.D Music, then it's somebody who was influenced heavily by G.O.O.D. Music.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Nothing's ever easy about composing for other people's projects, but I like it. I've been lucky to have worked with adventurous directors who trust me.

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

Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary.

Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it.

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I frequented their house more than I did my own, because it had all those marvellous things in that that old ladies do have. And they had a piano, and I used to play around with that; they showed me how to read music and I used to play to them.

I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.