Compose Quotes

234 quotes by 210 authors

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. — Ezra Pound
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals… — Ordway Tead
In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game… — Judit Polgar
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible. — Edward Weston
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation. — Mahatma Gandhi
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a… — Milton Friedman
For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the… — Pope John Paul II
But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to… — Kenny Smith
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think… — A. R. Rahman
The greatest source of inspiration is hard work. Of course, I also believe in inspiration itself, but sometimes you have to provoke it, call on… — Joaquin Rodrigo
With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model… — Vhils
The unity of the human race, as envisaged by BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all nations, races, creeds and classes… — Shoghi Effendi
I consider everything I compose a gift. — Keith Emerson
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among… — George Washington
I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a… — Margaret Atwood
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to… — Conor Oberst
Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each… — Andrea Palladio
I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I… — Thelonious Monk

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