Compose Quotes

234 quotes by 210 authors

The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be… — Isaac D'Israeli
If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing… — Langston Hughes
The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose… — Lord Chesterfield
When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long. — Euripides
You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea… — Roy Lichtenstein
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I always begin to compose the melody first. — Nobuo Uematsu
I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth… — Kate Voegele
I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing. — Chuck Mangione
Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners… — Socrates
Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory… — Richard P. Bland
It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs. — Wes Borland
I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language. — Marc Anthony
I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose. — Richard Attenborough
What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract… — Ada Lovelace
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music,… — Gyorgy Ligeti
For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when I originally composed… — Jean Michel Jarre

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