Composing Quote by Terry Bozzio Download Open image “All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.” — Terry Bozzio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composing Play
I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness,… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime. — Andre Previn 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
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful to be where I'm at and be able to play. That's really the bottom line for me. Survival and being able… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet. — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery,… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was on talking… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I don't really have that much control over where I play. I put out parameters and I accept what I can. If it's really… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history. — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I feel qualified and competent to try anything that's thrown my way because I don't have to be a success. I can just try. — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying. — Terry Bozzio 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
