Composing Quote by Gustav Holst

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

— Chuck Mangione

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

— Robert Schumann

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

— Eberhard Weber

Compose first, worry later.

— Ned Rorem

I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.

— Hilary Hahn

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

— Alexandre Desplat

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.

— Terry Bozzio

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

— Roscoe Mitchell

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

— Anonymous

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness,…

— Clara Schumann