#composing

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. ↗

— Steve Swallow

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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

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes. I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

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There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop? ↗

— Gunther Schuller

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There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me! ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

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