Composing Quote by Gustav Mahler

I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has…

— Alexandre Desplat

I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

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

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

— Terry Bozzio

I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way…

— Stefon Harris

I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of…

— Chris Thile

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

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few…

— Jimi Hendrix

I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm doing either…

— Christopher Hitchens

When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm…

— Drake

Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly from the…

— Lucy Simon