Composing Quotes - Page 10

• Composing mortals with immortal fire.

  W. H. Auden

  Fire, Immortal, Mortals

  'Three Songs for St Cecilia's Day' (1941)

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• Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.

  Ornette Coleman

  Thinking, People, Composer

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• I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in the crowd, of which I am myself part.... I try to preserve the dynamics of the street, and my way of using the camera tries to approximate as much as possible the way we see: focusing on details, opening up to wider angles, and composing all these very short, fragmented impressions into a larger mental picture.

  Beat Streuli

  Moving, Opening Up, Trying

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• I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing, I think the aspect that would have most endeared me to that field would have been the orchestration.

  Wendy Carlos

  Thinking, Fields, Sound

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• I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Boxes

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• I just want to continue developing as a musician. I love playing. I also want to be more involved in composing, doing my own thing, I hope to continue to be in different situations that I can nurture and that will nurture me.

  Vinnie Colaiuta

  Want, Musician, Different

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• I'm always composing and trying to learn more about the business. In today's market, it's more important than ever to be self-sufficient as an artist. I am in law school and that has helped me in so many ways. It's cool to know what I'm signing and I hope to be able to advise other artists.

  Antoniette Costa

  School, Artist, Self

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.

  Glenn Branca

  Real, Creating, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds.

  Glenn Branca

  Thinking, Sound, Tools

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Writing, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Writing, Writing Things Down, Difficult

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.

  Eyvind Kang

  Creativity, Levels, Consciousness

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."

  Eyvind Kang

  Art, Wall, Expression

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

  Adrian Younge

  Mean, Boss, The End Of The Day

  "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.

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• All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.

  Terry Bozzio

  Play

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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