Quotes of: Composing Keyword

It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

Chuck Mangione

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

Harold Prince

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

Johannes Brahms

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Duke of Wellington

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.

Graeme Murphy

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

Gianni Versace

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

Carla Bruni

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Gustav Mahler

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

Ken Burns

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

Fede Alvarez

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

Star of the Sea

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Pensées

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

Algernon Sidney

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

Thomas Beecham

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

Sandra Bullock

Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.

Alan Dershowitz