Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose…

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all,…

— Gustav Mahler

I am not just a singer, I am a composer as well. Because I'm balancing both, it takes me longer to compose a song.

— Ankit Tiwari

Works of art inspire me to compose.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical "solution" to…

— John Keltonic

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

— Sam Amidon

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

— Robert Schumann

I got to compose for a full symphony orchestra.

— Jack Conte

I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a…

— Natalie Portman

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

— Andrea Hirata

Even in front of nature one must compose.

— Edgar Degas

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

— Steve Swallow

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

— Gopi Sundar

I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my…

— A. R. Rahman