#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 tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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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

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Composing demands a degree of isolation. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

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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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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

#chance #composing #dimensions #down #essential

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician. ↗

— Tony Williams

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Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear. ↗

— Eric Whitacre

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