Quotes About Music

I like composing music, but I love being with my family.

Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.

Composing is an emotional thing.

I'm trying to focus on my job. I don't think that being famous is a job. My job is composing, singing, performing, but not being a star.

When I'm by myself - composing or writing film scores - it's very lonely. I'm just sitting by myself in the studio.

I have completed 21 years of composing music in Indian films.

I would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for orchestrating and composing, and I think she would be really engaging to work with.

I need to study more. I need to educate myself more - and not just in music, in everything - but especially in music and composing.

Composing music for 'Mungaru Male 2' is a big responsibility and challenge.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.

For one, the whole concept of 'Live From Here' - writing a song every week - was like composition bootcamp.

Lyrics is the face of any song. The combination of composition, lyrics and singing is what makes a song a song.

It was always my dream to do non-film music, where I'm the voice and face of my composition.

I won't change myself and compromise myself, but I will make my music to be in the conversation with everyone else's.

As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.

There's no compromise to me in what I'm doing. I'm trying to make songs that I love and make them feel a certain way and go to certain places. It just so happens that a lot of 13-year-old girls like that.

I got to Brighton in the late 90s and discovered samplers. Suddenly, I could be my own band with a guitar and sampler, getting my drums in charity shop records. It was better than bashing around in someone's basement, trying to compromise ideas.

There's a lot of compromises, but that's what a great record should be, really.

It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

I don't think I'd want to concentrate on just acting because I love music, and things are going really well, so I think I will always continue to make music.