Composing Quote by Roscoe Mitchell Download Open image “I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.” — Roscoe Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composing
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style. — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them. — Arijit Singh Copy Share Image
You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work like that… — Gopi Sundar Copy Share Image
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations. — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that. — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance. — Roscoe Mitchell 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 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
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
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
