The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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 love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
Back then, I was really into composing the entire solo, beginning to end. I wanted to have it at least 80 to 90 percent complete before going into the studio. I didn't improvise in the studio. I was young, and I didn't really have the development in my playing or the ability to show up with nothing and then put down 500 ideas. I can do that now because I'm so much more of a musician now.
I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is that it makes me write at the speed that I feel I should be composing, rather than faster than I can think, which is what happens to me on any keyboard.
I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.
Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is going to play. ” This is called composing. But last night, the Composer was not muttering. He was not humming. He was not moving, or even breathing. This is called decomposing.
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 is like driving down a foggy road.
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.
Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.
