Composing Quotes - Page 10

• Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

  Benjamin Britten

  Bricks And Mortar, Fog, Driving

  "The Classical Music Experience: Discover the Music of the World's Greatest Composers". Book by Julius H. Jacobson (p.341), 2008.

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• I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.

  Richard Grossman

  Real, Player, Thinking

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• My urge, when I go to the store, is to buy everything. And it's the same when I'm composing. My first instinct is basically to bring the whole store home, and not make a decision about how things play out.

  Nico Muhly

  Home, Play, Decision

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Thinking, Would Be, One Word

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Ideas, House, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Philosophical, Sunset

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.93, Penguin

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• I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

  William Bolcom

  Retrospect, Process, Make Sense

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• I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music since I was that age - singing in musicals and taking lessons. Lots of lessons! Singing, dancing, acting, drums set. My mom pretty much had a full-time job carting me all over town six days a week.

  Jason Graves

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

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• I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

  Franz Schubert

  Purpose, World

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• I'm composing and writing music.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Writing, Writing Music

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• Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Community, India, Finals

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• A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Equality, Cities, Voice

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.240, Hackett Publishing

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• Shook is the musical universe I created. I come from a classical and jazz background and my father is a jazz pianist, so my world bears largely the marks of this influence. As a sort of gateway, I started composing my own music on the computer at the age of 13. Before Shook, I had not yet discovered the kind of music I wanted to dedicate myself to, so I did a little of everything.

  Shook

  Father, Musical, Age

  Source: www.atickettosomewhere.com

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• I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Girl, Art, Writing

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I'm composing more than before. I'm cutting down on conducting.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Cutting, Conducting, Cutting Down

  Source: www.pbs.org

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