Hard Quote by Johannes Brahms

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

— Chuck Mangione

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

— Eberhard Weber

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

— Gustav Holst

I used to do most of my composing at a little table in a cafe. Composing for 52 instruments, I had to figure out…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

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

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

— Anonymous

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels…

— Truman Capote

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

— Benjamin Clementine

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write…

— Luc Ferrari

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring…

— Stephen Leacock

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

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

— Lalo Schifrin