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“As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.”

“All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.”

“I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write a piece for me for an orchestra. And I thought, I don't want someone else to write that. You know I finally had made an overhead chart of my drums and what pitches the cymbals and toms were tuned to, and what have you. And I started to compose just with what I had for my solo drumming.”

People Ifs Knows Want Writing Made Pieces Toms Solo Orchestra Composing Overhead Drumming Cymbals

Author:Terry Bozzio

“There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.”

Art Important Dream Names Wealth Rocks Style Jazz Guitar Composing Fuse Flamenco

Author:Jimmy Page

“When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.”

Firsts Attention Meditation I Realized Composing

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.”

Art Whole Reality Objects Painting Art Is Landscape Opera Sculpture Vans Composing Wagner

Author:Paul Virilio

“I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs apart, down to their bones. Songwriters would hire me to produce their demos, which lead me to become a songwriter. The relationship and power music has to TV and film attracted me to composing [and] I learned to write for instruments other than guitar.”

Writing Film Song Player Produce Tvs Band Instruments Guitar Bones Songwriters Touring Sixteen Composing Guitar Player Leading Me Demos

Author:Danny Jacob

“Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.”

Film Lonely Performances Score Occupation Concerts Composing Film Scores

Author:William P. Perry

“When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.”

Knows Mean Form Waiting Common Thread Composing Spilling Composing Music Common Threads

Author:J. Cole

“It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical.”

Thinking Want Ends Stories Lost Force Waiting Imagination Path Pieces Unexpected Internals Logical My Imagination Composing

Author:George Benjamin

“The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.”

World Needs London Isolation Friendly Composing

Author:George Benjamin

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”

Ifs Trying Funny Music Expression Words Bother Piano Composer Classical Music Music Love Playing Music Composing Conductor Inspirational Music Classic Music Composing Music

Author:Gustav Mahler

“What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.”

Wanted Composing

Author:Gustav Mahler

“I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.”

Writing Book Stories Order Complicated Composing

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

Source: Chagall at the Met

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

Source: Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”

Writing Earth Can Do Music Jazz Musical Thank God Composer Composing Writing Music Art And Music Famous Musician Classic Music Composing Music Classical Composers Classical Musicians Music Writing

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.”

“Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.”

World Giving Helping Chance Possibility Skills Essentials Give Me Dimensions Help Me Melody Multiple Composing Learning New New Skills Give Me A Chance Learning New Skills

Author:Liz Phair

“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”

“I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.”

People Thinking Want Long Different Wanted Artist Generations Messages Rap Backgrounds Unexpected Capability My Generation Great Music Composing Different Backgrounds

Author:ASAP Rocky

“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.”

Problem Havens Composing Conducting

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.”

Lying Mother Conditions Materials Elements Advantage Burning Corpses Restoration Mother Nature Composing Cremation Sanitary

Book:Theosophical Review

Source: Theosophical Review

“I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.”

Ifs Has Beens Done Composing

Author:Franz Schubert

“Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.”

Way Changed My Way Composing Sampling

Author:Klaus Schulze

“There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.”

Joy Greater Listening Oneself Composing

Author:Clara Schumann

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”

“In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.”

Giving Writing Ideas Running Written Style No Idea Pens Vigor Composing Brevity

Book:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

Art Artist Inspiring Architecture Stealing Composer Great Artist Composing Famous Musician Classical Composers

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.”

People Should Music Too Much Trouble Taught Humorous Appreciation Composer Classical Music Composing Composing Music Classical Composers Classical Musicians Appreciation In Relationships Oboes

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”

Doe Music Musical Stealing Composer Classical Music Composing Art And Music Funny Music Famous Musician Composing Music Jazz And Life

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.”

Should Has Beens Born Talent Should Have Dues Temperament Should Have Been Composing Anonymity Due Time

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.”

Way Records Inspire Expression Unique Genre Tied Composing

Author:Serj Tankian

“When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.”

Writing Song Fire Sitting Concern Down And Critics Mess Breathing Necks Hesitation Composing Sitting Down Breathing Fire

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?”

People Ifs Wonder Novel Composing Unwritten

Author:Rebecca West

“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”

Writing Guy Music Air Musician Songwriting Composer Assistance Molecules Composing Composing Music Unsuspecting Classical Musicians

Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.”

Persons Ideas Jobs Rooms Pieces Inspire Paper Composer Towers Masterpiece Composing Ivory Tablets Ivory Tower Sinai

Author:John Zorn

“I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.”

Looks Problem Used Turns Solutions Flow Problem Solving No Problem Composing Composing Music

Author:John Zorn

“It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.”

Political Individual Depends Independence Composing Cohesion

Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

“Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.”

House Color Shapes Window Notes Details Driving Fog Bricks Composing Slate Mortar Bricks And Mortar Brick Roads

Author:Benjamin Britten

“I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.”

May Lasts Next Chance Written Pages Commit Ink Composing

Author:Steve Erickson

“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”

Writing Mind Done Enemy Tree Dangerous Huge Hair Breaths Positivity Instant Verses Composition Haiku Composing Separating Swordsman

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.”

Should Mean Said Lord Cutting Talent Missing Honor Superiors Spares Flocks Composing Gowns Forsaken Cutting Down

Book:Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem

“Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.”

Mean Ends Middle Composing Fluidity Beginning Middle And End

Author:Sandra Bullock

“Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is going to play.” This is called composing. But last night, the Composer was not muttering. He was not humming. He was not moving, or even breathing. This is called decomposing.”

Mean Persons Play Lasts Moving Night Rooms Notes Breathing Composer Orchestra Last Night Composing Humming Muttering

Author:Daniel Handler

“And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan”

Ifs Character Written Stage Musical Biographies Composing

Book:My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park

Source: My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park

“The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.”

Song Composing

Book:Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way

Source: Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way

“Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

Source: Chagall at the Met

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