Career Quote by Arthur Honegger Download Open image “Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.” — Arthur Honegger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Career Composing Madness Profession
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. — Fran Lebowitz 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 of the… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
There are so many things you can do with your life, you can go to school and study toward your career, you can become… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
If I can beat a proven champion like Canelo, that will take my career to a different level. — Gennady Golovkin Copy Share Image
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
You can have a career and kids who love you. But you have to nurture yourself and find a way to be fulfilled so… — Catherine Reitman Copy Share Image
