Composing Quote by Wayne Shorter Download Open image “Composing is improvisation slowed down.” — Wayne Shorter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composing Improvisation Jazz Jazz music Music
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking… — Robben Ford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it. — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection. — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
Music is just sound - what's more important to me is behavior. I'm watching these play-offs - basketball - it's interesting to watch behavior,… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I always say that music is a small drop in the ocean of life. I was told a long time ago that your horn,… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
It's up to the person who's being creative to find ways to emerge and shake up the world of wealth. — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
There's a steady forward march of a creative process that some of us stay with and don't give up - that should be an… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means,… — Wayne Shorter 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
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