Quotes of: Composing Keyword

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

Cutting for Stone

History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.

Deathryde: Rebel Without a Corpse

She is mine.' Edward’s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didn’t say I would fight fair.

Eclipse

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

You can only fight one man at a time with a sword, but, with a pen, you can compose a lecture to bore legions of enemy troops to death.

Blood and Betrayal

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by t...

Carlisle Floyd

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely e...

Darren Criss

Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.

Paul Engle

I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.

Sarah Brightman

Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.

Sivamani

Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don’t get it down on paper it decomposes in my head.  This work is composed entirely of compost.

$3.33

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

Night Flight

What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.

Paper Towns

Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.

Terrorscape

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

Tori Amos

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

Richard Rodney Bennett

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

Samuel George Morton

Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.

Stephen Sondheim

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

Thom Gunn