Are composers generally socially reserved or shy?

Hogwash.

I don't agree with people who say they enjoy music because it's just fun, no matter how true that is for them that it's just plain fun. Music is my life, my only friend, my love.

Not the ones I know. None.

I'm not a loud person, but I am not shy.

Originally Posted by DOFTS

You are comparing apple and oranges. Does being a composer effect your personality, or does being a certain personality predispose you to be a composer. Perhaps the later, but hardly the former. Which seems to be what the original post seems to indicate.

Actually, what I was thinking of was the latter: that it is because of their social awkwardness or shyness or lack of social facility that composers turn to composition. In fact it may be the same for writers. But I am only suggesting. I could be wrong. And I think what I am saying applies to the great composers, or perhaps only some composers. For example, can you imagine an outgoing personality writing Beethoven's last quartets? In his case his deafness also affected his social communication so that he was even more drawn to and concentrated on composition as a means of communicating his innermost thought and ideas to society. And based on this I can argue that his deafness, by limiting his opportunities for social self-expression, played a definitive role in the development of his later compositional language, deepening it to great philosophical depths and a new and unique language that have never since been equaled and are unlikely to. I don't think such a development in his compositional language would have been possible without his deafness, and the accompanying imposed relative social handicap/disconnection.

Perhaps. But if what you are saying only applies to "great" or "some composers" it's a rather moot point, since this thread seems to be suggesting that most composers share the trait of being introverts.

Originally Posted by Nirvana69

I think maybe I internalize a lot of thoughts and feelings that manifest themselves in my music. If I were a more outgoing person, maybe I would externalize a lot of more my emotions and therefore not have it come out in my music.

This is the most viable explanation for my theory!

I'm shy around girls.

I can't get to know guys. All the friends I have are either female or gay with one exception. I hate the ridiculously stupid attitude guys mostly have. It is foul.

Well let's put it this way, I'm a composer and I'm neither really that reserved or shy. Infact, for a composer I'm a very social person and talk to a lot of people. so arae composers generally shy or reserved? In my opinion, not always.

I'm shy around girls.

I use to be too lol, but over the years I've become more comfortable around them.

I am very introverted person. And I have social phobia.
Introversion means more concentration on inner thoughts and visions - to look inside. So it is logical why a lot of people who are deeply dedicated to art, thinking, science are more socially reserved than other people.

So it is logical why a lot of people who are deeply dedicated to art, thinking, science are more socially reserved than other people.

Lol, no it's not "logical". It's "logical" that an apple will fall if you drop it out of a window, but it's not "logical" that artists are more prone to introversion.