Quotes About Creativity

One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.

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

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

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've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.

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

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

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.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

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

The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has heard the song or the composition before.

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

I keep a composition book with me at all times to write rhymes, to write down ideas, write down my thoughts, you know just so I don't forget any ideas.

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

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.