I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.
I love composing songs for Hrithik because he is a talented dancer.
There’s a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.
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.
The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.
Singing and composing come naturally to me, but acting does not. I have worked at it and attended several workshops to learn the craft.
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson’s poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.
Composing music is hard work.
I have not thought of pairing with somebody for music direction and will continue composing music by myself.
The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there’s never been a formula. Each time, it’s a new thing.
I don’t like to box myself in when I’m composing.
I’ve been composing music for feature films since 2007. I’ve been creating music for films for 13 years and I totally enjoy and love doing that. However, I have a lot of music inside me which I want to share with you all in a different way.
I don’t hate work, composing is not work for me, it’s my pleasure; it’s my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?
I don’t meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
One of the great advantages of cremation – apart from all sanitary conditions – lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
I have been working and composing music since 1986. Over the years, I have seen our music industry go through all kinds of transformation.
I’ve been lucky to have been given opportunities in different genres. And most of the time I’ve felt that the exploration, the composing, the collaboration, was a move forward.
Some people ask me what instruments I play, but usually I’ll just say I’m more of a producer or a composer or songwriter – those are my strongest suits: arranging and composing.
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.
Composing a melody or a western song is easier than composing a commercial number.
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
I had a really pleasant time composing music for ‘Raaga.’
Since age seven, I’ve been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.
I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that’s what I did when I executed ‘Long.Live.A$AP.’ I wanted people to really see the message and that I’m an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.
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.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Nothing’s ever easy about composing for other people’s projects, but I like it. I’ve been lucky to have worked with adventurous directors who trust me.
I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.
To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don’t use a computer when I write, and I don’t use a piano. I’m at a desk writing, and it’s very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don’t help me at all.
I cannot learn creation from other people; I’ve got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying – I don’t know about harmonies, or anything, so if I’m composing a song, it’s really hard.
I’ve lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can’t repress my inclination to work against conventions.
We were really into what Cliff Martinez did with ‘Drive;’ we were into what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were doing with David Fincher. When I read about how they worked with David Fincher, they’re composing hours and hours of music and then he’s working and figuring it out.
If composing music is like going to the gym in the morning, acting is like an additional session of yoga. They don’t need to be mutually exclusive.
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn’t that way in my work.
I consider composing music to the sequel of ‘Ladies Tailor’ which had music by Ilayaraaja as my biggest blessing.
I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it’s not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.
My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.
I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.
Ever since Two Daughters I’ve been composing my own music.
I’m the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.
I just don’t feel like composing music for films because I find there is too much pretense in the industry and creativity has been replaced by the sole thought of making money.
I don’t always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
I enjoy what I do. The only burden is the deadlines. Plus, composing background scores is a thankless job; it is not perceived as a significant thing.
Composing is an emotional thing.
Watching my stepfather and mother working in the industry – acting and composing – and seeing firsthand how difficult it is to achieve a successful career in the theater, I thought it might be safer to go to art school with the aim of becoming a painter.
I’ve been composing music all my life and if I’d been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn’t want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn’t hurt each other.
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