Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

- Alexander Calder

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

- Brian Wilson

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

- Chuck Mangione

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

- Eberhard Weber

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.

- Gunther Schuller

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

- Helen Fisher

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

- Hideo Kojima

A lot of people in my generation, we use hip-hop as a tool to compose.

- Jose James

I consider everything I compose a gift.

- Keith Emerson

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

- Marc Anthony

I always begin to compose the melody first.

- Nobuo Uematsu

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

- Roy Lichtenstein

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

- Richard Attenborough

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

- Steve Swallow

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

- Yann Tiersen