Quotes About Composition

The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.

You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

Works of art inspire me to compose.

Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.

For me, my music is part of me, and which is why it seems second nature, and my compositions are instinctive.

I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has to go out. It has to become sounds and be written. It's an emotion that you can't repress.

I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.

As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose.

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.

The music I wrote as a kid already was always instrumental. It was never based on lyrics.

Writing songs, especially with the instrumental stuff, it's difficult.

We always used to describe ourselves as an instrumental band. Basically, the music was always instrumentally based, so the songs always came later.

With something like 'Second Sun' it was something I'd never really done before. It has no drums and I think that was the first time I'd done this sort of instrumental, bass-less kind of piece.

The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

The 'Discovery' album is really complex and really rich and really full of instruments, different parts and stuff.

The sound itself, the production, is of such great importance that it has become an integrated part of the composition.

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.

Good pictures require more than good lighting.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.