The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — John Cage Copy Share Image
The composing room has an unlimited supply of periods available to terminate short, simple sentences. — Turner Catledge Copy Share Image
When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. — George Murray Copy Share Image
I need to study more. I need to educate myself more - and not just in music, in everything - but especially… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved… — Sivamani Copy Share Image
It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience!… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better -… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see… — Tony Williams Copy Share Image
Watching David write was inspiring to me. He was at his most content composing. Music floated from his mind and fingertips. He… — Angela Bowie Copy Share Image
I'm always composing and trying to learn more about the business. In today's market, it's more important than ever to be self-sufficient… — Antoniette Costa Copy Share Image
I had it calcified inside me that that was the ultimate state of composing. Being Brian Wilson. Being simultaneously a genius and… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my… — Salman Khan Copy Share Image
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative. — William P. Perry Copy Share Image
That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing… — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun… — Casey Abrams Copy Share Image
I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for… — Arijit Singh Copy Share Image
It is hard work composing a song for a film and showing it to makers: 50% of the tune remains the same,… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and… — Lennie Tristano Copy Share Image
When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that. — Sivamani Copy Share Image
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb Copy Share Image