Composing Quote by Wayne Shorter

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

— Arnold Schoenberg

When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.

— Kurt Elling

Composition is frozen improvisation.

— Igor Stravinsky

Composition is selective improvisation.

— Igor Stravinsky

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

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

— Benjamin Britten

Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.

— Leonard Cohen

...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

Composing is like making love to the future.

— Lukas Foss

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

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

— Victor Hugo

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