To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe. — Frederick Marryat 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
I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. — John Cage Copy Share Image
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
I just don't feel like composing music for films because I find there is too much pretense in the industry and creativity… — Rajesh Roshan Copy Share Image
Composing music for a film, from my point of view, is like getting into the skin of the subject. It is just… — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is… — Steve Kluger Copy Share Image
Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create. — Michael Jackson 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
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal… — John Francis 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
Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of… — Karlheinz Stockhausen 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
Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had… — Steve Erickson 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
The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
My hobby is my profession, and therefore, I keep on composing creatively. — Himesh Reshammiya Copy Share Image
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines. — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
