Any Quote by Esperanza Spalding

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in…

— Zedd

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

— Paul Weller

To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try to do.…

— Vladimir Horowitz

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together,…

— Henry Mancini

Every time I sit down in front of my piano, I like to improvise with the instrument. It depends on my mood of that…

— Tarja Turunen

I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.

— John Grisham

I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the…

— Tom Waits

I used to do most of my composing at a little table in a cafe. Composing for 52 instruments, I had to figure out…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I just write a little bit on piano. I'm not by any stretch of the means even a good piano player. I just pick…

— Lorrie Morgan

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind…

— Sarah Silverman

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason…

— Leo Ornstein

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber