Music is a language.
When one asks what the time is, this is not read from paper, it is just said.
And the same happens when we phrase a more poetic line coming from us, our brain, the way we feel at that moment.
One way the master J.S. Bach might have used to compose music would be starting with improvising. (Anna Magdalena's book on her husband Bach). For example he might jam on the organ and if a great prelude had come out he might then write it down.
But there are great musicians who can't write or read notes. In the same same way there are poets who just say it but can't write it or read it.
A list might be as:
Vangelis (see his documentary on YouTube)
Paul Mc Cartney
Manos Hatzidakis (he was referring to printed notes as the paranoid black dots. Perhaps he learned later.)
George Zambetas
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Example of Zambetas playing bouzouki, (recording EMI Columbia Studios Athens with U47 mics etc)
Sakena's dance - Xarhakos https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dJi9QpVqubU#fauxfullscreen
Mike Oldfield can play, compose and write (record) not only on tape but paper too.(BBC Oldfield documentary, the making of tubular bells)
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