Music Quote by Paul Hindemith

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

— John Cage

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the…

— Robert Morris

Composing music is hard work.

— John Williams

Music is not just a composition of sounds, it is a tool to enhancing scenes.

— Anette Sandberg

“What is the use of composing if it is to confine the product within the precinct of the concert or the solitude of listening…

— Roland Barthes

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a…

— George Gershwin

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

— Ludovico Einaudi

I've always tried to create music the way Kubrick makes film, just kind of mimicking consciousness. He has a way of mimicking this greater…

— Weyes Blood

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

— Lennie Tristano

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

— Andre Previn

“Many of us can maybe sometimes imagine sounds, or have some musical ideas. But to have them consistenly building whole works, and to have…

— Christian Tetzlaff

I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don’t worry about the likeness of the…

— Mark Applebaum