Instruments Quote by David Ives

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

— Colin Wilson

Music is an important part of my writing process.

— Peter James

Writing music obviously comes from being inspired by things, and big changes in your life, and relationships and growing older and being more independent.

— Tristan Prettyman

When you play in smaller places with a smaller symphony, sometimes there's a difference in quality. Sometimes it's murderous. Sometimes it's real torture. Other…

— Anne Murray

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

— Tom Waits

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

— Nico Muhly

In the end, our way of writing music is a long process of experimentation. We enjoy the luxury of taking this very seriously and…

— Justin Chancellor

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

— St. Vincent

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

— Elliott Carter

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as…

— Tony Williams

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

— Danny Elfman