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Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'

— Eric Whitacre

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

— Nadia Ali

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

— Victoria de los Angeles

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

— David Del Tredici

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

— Zedd

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

— Trey Parker

Composers are always going back to the past.

— Anne Dudley

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

— Sarah Brightman

✗Opposing Perspectives

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

— Christina Grimmie

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

— Ken Burns