Composing Quote by Gyorgy Ligeti Download Open image “However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.” — Gyorgy Ligeti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composing Lessons Piano Piano lesson Piano lessons
I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background in classical… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early. — Beth Phoenix Copy Share Image
I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I played the piano growing up and then stopped for 10 or 12 years. — Timothee Chalamet Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose… — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life… — John Powell Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb Copy Share Image
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.' — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room,… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers,… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — John Cage Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
