Composing Quotes

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

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

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

Whatever you do... put your heart and soul into it!

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

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

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

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

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.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

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

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.

Composing music is what makes me happy.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

Composing mortals with immortal fire.

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

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.