Composing Quotes

143 quotes by 132 authors

The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of… — Samuel Smiles
From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide,… — Auguste Laurent
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the… — Jean Cocteau
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. — Gustav Holst
What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power;… — C. Wright Mills
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itselfâ€¦Making music is actually little else than a matter… — George Gershwin
...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking going… — Robben Ford
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
The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful… — Cecilia Bartoli
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to… — Robert Bly
I've found in composing that being simple and profoundâ€”having in-depthness in your musicâ€”is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot… — Horace Silver
Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened to… — James Newton Howard
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no… — Morton Feldman
There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of… — Tom Robbins
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. — Carla Bruni
Composing is improvisation slowed down. — Wayne Shorter
It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it. — Lennie Tristano
When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands… — Robert Greenberg
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into… — Henry Flynt
My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure… — Robert B. Laughlin

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