Composing Quote by Pauline Oliveros Download Open image “When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.” — Pauline Oliveros ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composing Composing Sounds Leading me Organize Song Sound Sounds Leading Want Want Organize Way
We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I write songs with the arrangements all at once, in my head. There's the producer side of me that's always… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
Making music is mostly spontaneously following sounds you find compelling that you chase and see where they're leading you. — Sam Roberts Copy Share Image
As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have words or concepts written down before I have any type of music or anything. So when I have that, sometimes I… — Giveon Copy Share Image
I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You… — Jaimoe Copy Share Image
Needless to say, I like to create a unique sound for each project I do. — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was lying on… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I can't really deal with buttons. And that's what I keep saying, "Okay, I can't push buttons, because that means I have to take… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's where it… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's important to… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I noticed you could monitor the recording that you're making, but you could also monitor the playback head. There's a little distance between them… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
First of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn't any classes in electronic music. So I'd stay… — Pauline Oliveros 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'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies. — Javed Jaffrey Copy Share Image
Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When I am… — Michael Bacon 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
It is hard work composing a song for a film and showing it to makers: 50% of the tune remains the same, and the… — Mohit Chauhan 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
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