Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they… — Jamie Weise 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
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting… — Esa-Pekka Salonen 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
Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another.… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the game itself is pretty much a melody and I am there to provide the lyrics. You want… — Al Michaels Copy Share Image
I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies. — Javed Jaffrey Copy Share Image
Creating a film's background score will help me be completely involved in the project because I will be composing more than just… — Tanishk Bagchi Copy Share Image
If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent.… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Composing tracks and saving it for the bank, I think, is healthy and I believe everyone should have a bank. This way,… — Tanishk Bagchi Copy Share Image
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of… — Robben Ford 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
I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with… — Wendy Carlos Copy Share Image
Composing is to think. It is to have your mind trying to find what is the best sound that the movie is… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
That's why I'm so passionate about making music for movies because you dive in and find the best ideas to bring tolife… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm… — Hart Bochner Copy Share Image
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
I didn't have to apply my mind to the aspects of scales and playing, and instead, I focused on creativity. I wrote… — Yngwie Malmsteen 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
Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to… — Danny Jacob Copy Share Image
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
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