Quotes of: Composed Keyword

Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home.

Miyavi

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

Sam Abell

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

Judy Holliday

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

John Philip Sousa

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Plautus

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

Franz Schubert

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

Clara Schumann

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Cecilia Bartoli

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

Gustav Mahler

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

Gioachino Rossini

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

James Tenney

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

Bill Viola

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

Sxip Shirey

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

Sivamani

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Yo-Yo Ma

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.

William Falconer

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

I went to a concert upstairs in Town Hall. The composer whose works were being performed had provided program notes. One of these notes was to the effect that there is too much pain in the world. After the concert I was walking along with the compose...

John Cage

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

Seraphina

God is the composer; you are the song.

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