The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. T. S. Eliot
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. Christopher Hitchens
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
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. Clara Schumann
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
