I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible… — Miyavi Copy Share Image
“If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.” — Duane Hewitt Copy Share Image
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can… — Caleb Deschanel Copy Share Image
Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way… — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording… — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it. — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions. — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it. — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image