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

- Klaus Schulze

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

- T. S. Eliot

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

- Steve Swallow

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

- Stanley Clarke

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

- Satyajit Ray

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

- Roscoe Mitchell

Poetry is composing for the breath.

- Peter Davison

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

- Olivia d'Abo

Composing is my life blood.

- Morton Gould

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

- Alex North

Composing music is hard work.

- John Williams

Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.

- Howard Shore

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

- Gustav Mahler

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

- Franz Schubert

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

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

- Erin Morgenstern

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

- Cliff Martinez

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

- Christopher Hitchens