Compose Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I can`t write, I can`t paint, I don`t compose.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

This was a huge, huge undertaking. I composed this concerto from the ground up. It took about two years total to compose, but there were interruptions when I was touring and making rock albums,

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you`re recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

Every graduate at the conservatoire is able to compose a Symphony, and maybe it will even receive a performance. But to write a melody which is sung and played by hundreds of interpreters is something one really has to be born to - ideally in America.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

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.

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.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.