Composing Quote by John Cage

I'm not a great piano player.

— Norah Jones

I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to.

— Stephen Hough

I'm not really a pianist.

— Harold Budd

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'm not an intellectual composer.

— Les Baxter

Composing music is hard work.

— John Williams

I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction.

— Placido Domingo

Really, I don't feel I'm a great piano player, but other people think so.

— Fats Domino

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

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.

— Joe Hisaishi

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.

— Borns

I can't play piano well enough without making mistakes.

— Joe Satriani