Alison Mosshart Quotes

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

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.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

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

Composing music is hard work.

When I am writing music, I sometimes envision a video playing alongside.

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

I write my music.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I'm not a natural songwriter.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.