I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the… — William Bolcom Copy Share Image
I just want to continue developing as a musician. I love playing. I also want to be more involved in composing, doing… — Vinnie Colaiuta Copy Share Image
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Dad, once an aspiring architect, drove his own catering truck to feed factory workers in downtown Los Angeles, and mom, with a… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done. — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
Singing and composing come naturally to me, but acting does not. I have worked at it and attended several workshops to learn… — Himesh Reshammiya Copy Share Image
It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music… — Jason Graves Copy Share Image
Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type… — James Young Copy Share Image
There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who… — Michael Ellsberg Copy Share Image
For me, be it a devotional, love or item song, composing process remains the same. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
