What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.
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.
'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.
The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.
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