Composing Music Quotes

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out. ~ Ernest Newman

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music. ~ Josh Groban

Composing music changes nations, listening to music changes you. ~ Alin Sav

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. ~ Igor Stravinsky

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing. ~ Brenda Ueland

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

Composing music is like taking pictures of your inner self, therefore it is the matter of finding the light inside. ~ Alain Bremond-Torrent

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. ~ Dweezil Zappa

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

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song. ~ Salman Khan

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. ~ Simon Rattle

Composing music is what makes me happy. ~ L.Joe

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. ~ Bruce Cockburn

For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product. ~ Tyler Cowen

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak - that I think about it all day long - that I like experimenting - studying - reflecting. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. ~ Frank Zappa

All of a sudden it hit me - If there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion? ~ Len Lye

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads. ~ Oliver Sacks

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC ~ Kurt Vonnegut

If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle ... he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout and whistle in response to those lines. There was nowhere he could hide in such a song that had all of its doors and windows open, so that he could walk out of it artlessly, the antiphonal responses blending with him as if he were no longer on stage. ~ Michael Ondaatje

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. ~ John Quincy Adams

What kids are doing are killing themselves
They feel they have no control of their prisoner's cell
And if you're one of them then you're one of me
And you would do almost anything just to feel free...- From the song Fake You Out ~ Twenty One Pilots

First of all, I want people to understand that I'm here to create for them. To create music for people so they'll know that I'm a source of love. And they can depend on my name. ~ Brian Wilson

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse. ~ William Westney

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' ... ~ Christopher Hitchens

There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven. ~ Brigham Young

Are you kind enough, on your little planet, not to shut that rhythm down? Not to crush underfoot the singers of songs and tellers of tales and wearers of silk? Because it's monsters who do that. Who extinguish art. Who burn books. Who ban music. Who yell at anyone with ears to turn off that racket. Who cannot see outside themselves clearly enough to sing their truth to the heavens. Do you have enough goodness in your world to let the music play?

Do you have soul? ~ Catherynne M. Valente

It is easier to understand if you think of it in terms of music. Sometimes a man enjoys a symphony. Elsetimes he finds a jig more suited to his taste.
The same holds true for lovemaking. One type is suited to the deep cushions of a twilight forest glade. Another comes quite naturally tangled in the sheets of narrow beds upstairs in inns. Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.
Some might take offense at this way of seeing things, not understanding how a trouper views his music. They might think I degrade women. They might consider me callous, or boorish, or crude.
But those people do not understand love, or music, or me. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

There is music in the cacophony of life. ~ Saru Singhal

To sulk is to create a noise; to smile is to create a music. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me. ~ Kaskade

You're not just competing with other brands for their attention, you're also competing with their friends, family, music playlists, soccer games, and nights out on the town. ~ Bryan J. Kramer

We each took a cup as we passed and drank the sweet chilled beverage- it was refreshing and tasted like ginger ale with a swirl of summer peaches. Then Peaseblossom waved us through the open door.
"Wow," said Henry.
We stepped into an enchanted culinary forest. The walls had been painted to look like a thicket of trees, and the ceiling resembled the summer sky in the woods, complete with overhanging branches. There were topiaries and baskets overflowing with wildflowers. The tables were grouped to one side, still draped in their shimmering coverings. Dreamy music floated through the air, and piney, herby scents wafted on gentle currents. Butterflies flitted around and landed on people's heads and shoulders. And everywhere we looked, there were trays of baked goods- most of them, I realized, straight from the pages of Puffy Fay's cookbook. The pastry case and the counter near it were hidden behind curtains that looked like a wall of evergreens. ~ Rajani LaRocca

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar. ~ Dizzy Gillespie

I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It still is a wonderful production. I remember going and seeing the performance and listening to the music. My father had Mormon Tabernacle Choir music, and we would listen to it and sing with it. ~ Renee Fleming

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge. ~ Daughn Gibson

If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea. ~ Conor Oberst

Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere. ~ Conrad Sewell

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine. ~ Beth Ditto

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too. ~ Rick Ross

When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road. ~ Noel Gallagher

I kind of just want to get to know people and I have a genuine interest in people that listen to my music. I've just always felt like that. I think it's from the days of playing guitar to a few people and being very conversational and very intimate and I've always wanted to keep that vibe. ~ Ellie Goulding

I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius. ~ Lady Gaga

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears. ~ Gerald Massey

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time. ~ Nick Hornby

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. ~ Richard Dawkins

Parents ... rigidly monitor the selection of television programs ... and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge through uplifting literature; wholesome books; selective movies; classical and exemplary popular music; entertainment that uplifts and edifies the spirit and mind. ~ David B. Haight

At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city,
Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made,
They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,)
A music club and music warehouse pretty. ~ Heinrich Heine

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. ~ Prince

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song. ~ Kate Nash