Composing Quotes

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. Eliot

Work, Put, Last

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

Life, Write, Read

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

Nothing, Joy, Listening

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.
Brian Eno

Work, Again, Able

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

Life, Music, School

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

God, Done, Simply

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

Wrong, Wonder, Meet

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

Wanted, While, Realized

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.
Sydney Smith

Give, Through, Idea

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.
Liz Phair

Work, Learning, Down

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
James Dyson

Life, Music, Money

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb

Music, Emotional, Sensitive

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.
Igor Stravinsky

Life, Time, God

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.
Tom Hooper

Great, Two, Working

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

Write, Order, Stories

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.
David Mitchell

Creativity, Sometimes, Between

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

Problem, Times, Perhaps

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.
Klaus Schulze

Playing, Yes, Changed

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
Morton Feldman

Others, Another, Takes

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.
Serj Tankian

Love, Cannot, Another

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.
Lukas Foss

Age, Creative, Since

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.
ASAP Rocky

Music, Great, Live

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
Satyajit Ray

Music, Two, Since

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes. I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
Erin Morgenstern

Work, Best, Broken

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.
Ken Hill

Work, Creative, Song

Poetry is composing for the breath.
Peter Davison

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
David Antin

Together, Working, Process

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
George Murray

Writing, Process, Develop

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.
Benjamin Britten

Down, Road, Color

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Maurice Ravel

End, Lose, Might

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