Quotes of: Composing Keyword

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

Dhani Harrison

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

John Geddes

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

Gavin Bryars

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Mignon McLaughlin

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Gustav Mahler

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Howard Dietz

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

Ansel Adams

Life is a tagline, please compose it with your best-est knowledge.

Life

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

Gyorgy Ligeti

A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dipped Carrot On my bed, my green comforter draped over my knees like a lumpy turtle, I think about the Berlin Wall of years that separates us. In my own life, the years a...

A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dipped Carrot

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Song of Myself

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

Klaus Schulze

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

Mitch Leigh

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

Muqtada al Sadr

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

Tim Rice

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Samuel Butler

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

David Del Tredici

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby