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Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
— Satyajit Ray
I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.
— Casey Abrams
I'm composing and writing music.
— Anthony Hopkins
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.
— Frederick Marryat
Mystery can be overwhelming. Touching Divinity can seem like all one's atoms composing mind and body have suddenly been rearranged.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak - that I think about it all day long - that I like experimenting - studying - reflecting.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
— John Cage
Composing music is hard work.
— John Williams
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
— Clara Schumann
Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
— Arthur Honegger
A union of the States is a union of the men composing them, from whence a national character result to the whole,
— Rufus King
Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.
— Coco J. Ginger
Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.
— Sandra Bullock
I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
— Michael Jackson
Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
— Benjamin Clementine
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
The song we're composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.
— Steven Pressfield
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
— Steve Swallow
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
— Simon Rattle
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
— Rebecca West
I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
— Brenda Ueland
Composing is my life blood.
— Morton Gould
Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.
— Eric Whitacre
In England, life is a long process of composing oneself ...
— Shirley Hazzard
And I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.
— Laurie Viera Rigler
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
— Matt Hardy
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.
— Augustus De Morgan
There are only two types of composers:
composing composers
and decomposing composers. — Lera Auerbach
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
— Gustav Holst
My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.
— Tom Hooper
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.
— Mignon McLaughlin
If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.
— Alison Jackson
I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
— Anthony Hopkins
I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.
— Roscoe Mitchell
To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment ...
— Joseph Epstein
When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.
— Pauline Oliveros
Talentless and incompetent as I am, there are two things I can do, and two things only: walk, with my own two feet; compose, composing my poems.
— Santoka Taneda
Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
— Harrison Birtwistle
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.
— Arnold Schoenberg
Whatever you do ... put your heart and soul into it!
— S. Truett Cathy
I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
— Erin Morgenstern
Composing is improvisation slowed down.
— Wayne Shorter
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
— Maurice Ravel
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.
— William Bolcom
I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
— Andre Previn
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.
— Howard Shore
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
— Albert Einstein
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.
— Franz Schubert
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
— George Murray
Composing is like making love to the future.
— Lukas Foss
Composing demands a degree of isolation.
— Cliff Martinez
Composing mortals with immortal fire.
— W. H. Auden
Poetry is composing for the breath.
— Peter Davison
Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell.
— Nenia Campbell
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
— John Stuart Mill
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.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!
— Gerard De Marigny
