Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all… — John Powell Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb Copy Share Image
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.' — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
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… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — John Cage Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration.… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another,… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I would like to do one of Ilaiyaraaja's songs. After all, I did play drums for him and have watched him closely… — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of… — James Iha Copy Share Image
In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience!… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
