Composing Quotes

143 quotes by 132 authors

A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person,… — Thomas Jefferson
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. — Franz Schubert
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front.… — Sergei Prokofiev
Composing demands a degree of isolation. — Cliff Martinez
The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before… — B.F. Skinner
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves. — Mignon McLaughlin
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to… — Phyllis McGinley
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind… — Maxine Hong Kingston
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who… — Karlheinz Stockhausen
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that… — Bruce Cockburn
I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things. — Casey Abrams
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker. — David Antin
I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just… — Stanley Clarke
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament. — Augustus De Morgan
It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization… — Alexis Carrel
When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few… — Tom Glazer
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it… — George Gershwin
What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity… — Ian Hornak
I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies,… — PSY
Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the… — Brigham Young

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