#composing

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing. ↗

— Ken Hill

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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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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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Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

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There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. ↗

— Clara Schumann

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Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities. ↗

— Liz Phair

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