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
I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it.… — Aleister Crowley 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
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
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
Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
My hobby is my profession, and therefore, I keep on composing creatively. — Himesh Reshammiya Copy Share Image
The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I have no fears or inhibitions while composing. It's a way of expressing myself. — Santhosh Narayanan Copy Share Image
We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of… — Karlheinz Stockhausen 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
Shook is the musical universe I created. I come from a classical and jazz background and my father is a jazz pianist,… — Shook Copy Share Image
Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with… — Andrea Palladio Copy Share Image
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? — Rebecca West Copy Share Image