Bricks Quote by Benjamin Britten

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

— Sandra Bullock

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

— Benjamin Britten

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

— 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 making love to the future.

— Lukas Foss

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

— Brenda Ueland

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano…

— Trey Parker

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

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water…

— Joan Didion

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

— Alexandre Desplat

It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many…

— Johannes Brahms

Writing is the rock on which everything is built.

— Dan Rather