Quotes About Composition

I always compose on the harmonium.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

I would love to compose for an entire film because it will be a different experience.

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

At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.

When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.

I had always wanted to compose music for movies, but had never been given the opportunity.

When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

Whenever I watch a movie I like to imagine what sort of music I might compose for a scene, to create a particular kind of atmosphere, because when I see something I hear something.

We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time.

I have composed music for many city-based movies.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

I'm not an architectural composer.

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.

The thing I don't want to do as a film composer is reiterate. I prefer to subtextualize or to underline rather than to say, 'This is what you should be feeling.'

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

Many composers are asked to come up with three great songs in ten days... But it's rare for us to pull that off. You cannot force the brain to make a great song and I'm very scared of doing bad work.

But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out.

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.

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

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