Be careful Quote by Johannes Brahms

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

— Johannes Brahms

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

— Chuck Mangione

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

— Anonymous

I always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it's useful, but it's how your intellect puts the ideas together that…

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Robert Schumann

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 music is hard work.

— John Williams

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

— Hilary Hahn

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and…

— Benjamin Britten

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

— Gustav Holst

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

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

— Trevor Rabin