Composing Quote by Arnold Schoenberg

Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.

— Howard Shore

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

— Benjamin Britten

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

— Sandra Bullock

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

— Alexandre Desplat

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

— Benjamin Clementine

Composing is like making love to the future.

— Lukas Foss

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken.…

— Henry David Thoreau

...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking…

— Robben Ford

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness,…

— Clara Schumann

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

— Margaret Atwood

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

— Walter Kaufmann