Composing Quote by Clara Schumann Download Open image “There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.” — Clara Schumann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composing Greater Joy Listening Oneself
I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I can't even begin to express the joy I get from writing songs, both on my own and with others, I hold it all… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months… — Halsey Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though… — Adam Gopnik 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 it has… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing about it. — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it. — Lennie Tristano Copy Share Image
If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling? — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my… — Clara Schumann 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 your life… — John Powell Copy Share Image
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,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb Copy Share Image
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.' — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room,… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers,… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — John Cage Copy Share Image
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I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image