You Know You're a Composer When...

• You have had to ask a family member to kindly stop whistling so you can compose
• The first thing you ask when someone mentions a new movie is “Who wrote the score?”
• You have more than one keyboard in the house
• You collect exotic instruments
• You can play many instruments just a bit
• Your iPod is filled with soundtracks
• You can watch a movie you don’t know anything about and correctly name the composer just by listening to it
• You save every scrap of paper in case it has music ideas written on it
• You write music ideas on library receipts and gum wrappers
• There is staff paper in your schoolbag
• You have created a brilliant song only to discover that it sounds a lot like something John Williams would compose
• You ask your choir director which instruments sound the best with piano, violin, tin whistle and marimba (in which case the answer is- nothing really)
• You have a song stuck in your head but you don’t know if it already exists or if you composed it subconsciously
• You talk your friends into playing your songs
• You want an orchestra for your birthday

And this is where I challenge you, my lovely followers, to to create your own list. What's your thing? Please share! And if you do, why don't you link back to this post?