Compose Quotes

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Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. — Gautama Buddha
The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with… — Rob Brezsny
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the… — Jorge Luis Borges
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. — Gustav Holst
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of… — Aaron Copland
Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the… — Stanislaw Lem
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward. — Igor Stravinsky
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as… — Pierre Boulez
In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the communityâ€™s defence… — Alan Keyes
My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth. — Dmitri Shostakovich
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though… — Giuseppe Verdi
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. — Madeleine L'Engle
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of… — Andrew Solomon
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think… — Roger Brooke Taney
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I… — Ludwig van Beethoven
It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a… — Gustav Mahler
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He recognizes no national… — Milton Friedman
The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which… — Giuseppe Mazzini

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