Composing Music Quotes

“...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat.

[Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]”
― Colm Tóibín, The Magician

“Composing music is like taking pictures of your inner self, therefore it is the matter of finding the light inside.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“Write this play like a composer. I’ve always said that the best members of this troupe came from musicals, and I stand by that. To do what we do, you gotta be able to hear the music—even when it isn’t there.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, Death Troupe

“When a composer feels a responsibility to make, rather than accept, he eliminates from the area of possibility all events that do not suggest that at that point in time vogue of profundity, for he takes himself seriously, wishes to be considered great, and he thereby diminishes his love and increases his fear and concern about what people will think.”
― John Cage, A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings