Top 42 Compose Music Quotes
#1. I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.
Anthony Hopkins
#2. I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
A.R. Rahman
#3. I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#4. If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#5. I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!
Jiah Khan
#6. You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
Roy Lichtenstein
#7. I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical "solution" to each movie scene, but my goal is to compose music that works perfectly for the director, and me!
John Keltonic
#8. I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
#9. Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.
Jon Appleton
#10. Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home.
Miyavi
#11. To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.
Viggo Mortensen
#12. I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.
Anthony Hopkins
#13. I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
Franz Wright
#14. I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.
Michael Jackson
#15. More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
Eric Hoffer
#16. When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.
Mahan Esfahani
#17. Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic.
Toba Beta
#18. My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.
Sergei Prokofiev
#19. I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.
John Fahey
#20. I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.
Lee Ritenour
#21. Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.
Erik Satie
#22. And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
Victoria De Los Angeles
#23. The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori
#24. I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.
Scott Patterson
#25. His voice just became the music her soul yearned to embrace, to compose the right notes to make their songs come together again, as easily and beautifully as they had before.
Joey W. Hill
#26. I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.
Thelonious Monk
#27. [Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms ... so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.
Martin Luther
#29. Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.
Ben Harper
#30. Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#31. Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
E.L. Doctorow
#32. I would love to compose more fantasy music, whether it's for a film or a game. That genre has so much opportunity for harmonic experimentation, not to mention all the interesting instruments that become available when composing music for alien species and other worlds.
Jason Graves
#33. For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm intending it to not be recited. I'm a singer-songwriter, and I'm a poet, and there really isn't a contradiction, at least for me.
Cornelius Eady
#34. I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.
Norman Wisdom
#35. We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
Rick Wright
#36. I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm doing either of these things I realize that I've written a sentence or uttered a thought that I didn't absolutely know I had in me ... until I saw it on the page or heard myself say it.
Christopher Hitchens
#37. I'll probably paint on this piano after I compose, for that will inspire me to make more awesome works.
Shawn Lukas
#38. I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
A.R. Rahman
#39. To compose is to remember music that has never been written.
Robert Schumann
#40. I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.
Alicia Witt
#41. The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
A.R. Rahman
#42. Nothing lasts forever. But there is new life; new colours, fresh words, new tunes to compose. There is now; time present, time future. We build with new bricks and hope our voices are heard, our music is sung and our love cherished for as long as it is offered.
Carol Drinkwater
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