Enough Quote by Elvis Costello

You can only learn orchestration if you have the possibility of using an orchestra.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

— Shane McCrae

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or…

— Eric Whitacre

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I…

— John Fahey

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

— Howard Shore

A lot of my music tends to combine electronics and orchestra.

— Johann Johannsson

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to…

— Cheryl Mendelson

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

— Nell Freudenberger

I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my songs on…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

— Alison Goldfrapp

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything…

— Chang-Rae Lee

I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.

— Henry Mancini