Choose me Quote by Gustav Mahler

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

— Gustav Holst

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

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

What you write chooses you.

— Terry Brooks

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

— Alexandre Desplat

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

— Yann Tiersen

One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

— Luigi Pirandello

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

— Chuck Mangione

I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.

— Arijit Singh

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

— Anonymous

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

— Hilary Hahn

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

— Vikram Seth