Compose Quote by Gustav Mahler

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all,…

— Gustav Mahler

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

— Terry Bozzio

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

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Chuck Mangione

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

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

— Gustav Holst

Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.

— Howard Shore

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

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

Composing is an emotional thing.

— Ilaiyaraaja

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

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

— Hilary Hahn