Composing Quotes

143 quotes by 132 authors

La dernie'Â re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie'Â re. The last thing one discovers… — Blaise Pascal
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it,… — James Dyson
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting… — Brian Eno
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been. — Lukas Foss
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing… — Gary Hamel
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. — Christopher Hitchens
I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. — Anthony Hopkins
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized. — Gustav Mahler
I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. — Erin Morgenstern
Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has… — Liz Phair
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 really see the… — ASAP Rocky
There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done. — Franz Schubert
Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing. — Klaus Schulze
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. — Clara Schumann
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give… — Sydney Smith
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of… — Igor Stravinsky
Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records… — Serj Tankian
When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a… — Rufus Wainwright
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? — Rebecca West

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