I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
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
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel,… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
Shook is the musical universe I created. I come from a classical and jazz background and my father is a jazz pianist,… — Shook Copy Share Image
The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When… — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling,… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation. — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text. — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I worked for several years composing music for commercials, but I was very happy to give that up.… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
There are so many factors that one needs to keep in mind while composing for a film. Every movie is different and… — Shankar Mahadevan 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 you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and… — James Dyson 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
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind… — David Antin Copy Share Image
I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I started composing when I was around 13, and back then, people used to say that I needed to be a composer… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
