I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.
Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.
@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.
I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.
I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.
My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion.
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully.
As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.
I don't really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch 'Adventure Time', 'The Amazing World of Gumball', and 'Looney Tunes' and old classic cartoons.
Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.
I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.
I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.
Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.
For my wardrobe, I like to invest in classic pieces and pair them with more trendy new pieces and accessories each season.
If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.