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

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…

— Rajesh Roshan

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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…

— Arthur Rubinstein

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…

— Benjamin Clementine

Watching David write was inspiring to me. He was at his most content composing. Music floated from his mind and fingertips. He would strum…

— Angela Bowie

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.

— Anthony Hopkins

All of a sudden it hit me - If there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as…

— Len Lye

Music is the space between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

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…

— Daniel Levitin

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

— Jeet Gannguli

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…

— Vijay Antony

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

— Benjamin Britten

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…

— Jason Graves

Composing music is hard work.

— John Williams

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…

— Bruce Cockburn