Quotes About Composition

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to that that I love.

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

I just see us as songwriters.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

Sonic Youth was not a singer-songwriter band. It was an electric collective. And, whatever else people's perceptions of Sonic Youth were, it was always about putting together a time-based composition - and that is exactly what songwriting is, in its classic form.

Many varieties of sonnet, of course, have been written over the ages.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.

A lot of Ennio Morricone's music is just - it's very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic.

To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.

Every orchestra has its own sound.

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.

Music is what feelings sound like, and to sing a meaningfully melodious composition like 'Suno apne dil ki' is a rarity.

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.