The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”
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?
When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
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.
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.
Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on Music, and stopped after chapter two. McCartney said he was concerned that if he learned more about how he does what he does (as far as composing music), he may not be able to do it anymore!
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.
Composing music is what makes me happy.
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.
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