Musician or composer
Musician or composer
Musicians may compose by simply messing about with a guitar or piano until they think they have ‘a nice tune’.
This is not inspiration.
Inspiration is when they can ‘hear’ the music inside them and they write it down. They put what they can ‘hear’ into a form others can play.
It comes from a place they themselves do not understand. A number of our truly great musicians and composers worked that way.
Occasionally the person who composes the music discovers a program of the universe a - songline.
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- Adams, Ryan
- Aphex Twin
- Arriola, Pepito
- Barrett, Syd and Pink Floyd
- Beatles, the
- Beethoven
- Berlioz
- Black Sabbath
- Bolden, Buddy
- Bowie, David
- Brahms, Johannes
- Brel, Jacques
- Bruch
- Byrd, William
- Byrne, David
- Cale, J J
- Canned Heat
- Cash, Johnny
- Chesnokov, Pavel
- Chopin
- Coleman, Lloyd
- Coltrane, John
- Copland, Aaron
- Count of Eulenburg, Sigwart
- Daniélou, Alain
- Debussy
- Delius
- Diamond, Neil
- Doors, The
- Dvorak
- Echo and the Bunnymen
- Elgar, Sir Edward
- Eno, Brian
- Erickson, Roky
- Faithfull, Marianne
- Ferrero, Willy
- Fleetwood Mac
- Freddie Mercury and Queen
- Genesis
- Godwin, Joscelyn
- Graham, David
- Grieg
- Gurrumul Yunupingu, Geoffrey
- Guthrie, Woody
- Harburg, E Y and Baum, Frank
- Harrison, George
- Heart
- Hendrix, Jimi
- Hodgson, Roger
- Holst, Gustav
- Hunter, Robert C
- Ippolitov-Ivanov
- Jackson, Michael
- Kennedy, Nigel
- Kristofferson, Kris
- Led Zeppelin
- Legrand, Michel
- Lennon, John
- Liszt, Franz
- Mahler, Gustav
- Menuhin, Yehudi
- Monk, Thelonius
- Moody Blues
- Morera, Enric
- Mozart
- Music Bureau
- Musician other
- Odetta
- Ogden, John
- Orbison, Roy
- Paganini
- Pavarotti, Luciano
- Perlman, Itzhak
- Porter, Cole
- Previn, André
- Previn, Dory
- Rachmaninoff
- Rafferty, Gerry
- Ravel
- Ravens
- Ray Davies and the Kinks
- Reed, Lou
- Reuter, Professor Florizel von
- Ring, Brendan
- Rolling Stones
- Rott, Hans
- Rubinstein, Anton
- Rudd, Xavier
- Sabri, Amjad Farid
- Saint-Saens
- Schoenberg, Arnold
- Schubert
- Schumann, Robert
- Scriabin
- Shebalin, Vissarion
- Shostakovich
- Sibelius
- Sill, Judee
- Simon, Paul
- Simone, Nina
- Sixx, Nikki
- Smetana
- St Vincent
- Sting
- Stockhausen
- Tallis, Thomas
- Tartini, Giuseppe
- Tatum, Art
- Tavener, John
- Tchaikovsky
- Townshend, Pete
- Tsujii, Nobuyuki
- Turner, Tina
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph
- Verdi
- Villa-Lobos
- Wagner, Richard
- Waits, Tom
- Whiteman, J H M
- Williams, John
- Wilson, Brian
- Wombats, the
- Wonder, Stevie
- Youssou N Dour