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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
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.
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 don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
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.
When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary.
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.
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
I have not thought of pairing with somebody for music direction and will continue composing music by myself.
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.
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.
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
When I'm by myself - composing or writing film scores - it's very lonely. I'm just sitting by myself in the studio.
I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
Singing and composing come naturally to me, but acting does not. I have worked at it and attended several workshops to learn the craft.
You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.
I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.
When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.
When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.
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?
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.
The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.
And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan
Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.
I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.
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.
I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
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.
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 worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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.
Some people ask me what instruments I play, but usually I'll just say I'm more of a producer or a composer or songwriter - those are my strongest suits: arranging and composing.
If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.
I consider composing music to the sequel of 'Ladies Tailor' which had music by Ilayaraaja as my biggest blessing.
I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
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.
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.
I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.
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.
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 did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.
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.
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.
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.
That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.
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.
