Attention Quote by Pauline Oliveros

We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out…

— Neville Goddard

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

— Pauline Oliveros

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

— John Cage

Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers,…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

It is hard work composing a song for a film and showing it to makers: 50% of the tune remains the same, and the…

— Mohit Chauhan

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…

— Bruce Cockburn

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room,…

— Josh Groban

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

— Steve Swallow

I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Even though, theoretically, being a composer and being a songwriter are the same thing, in my brain, they are completely different. When I am…

— Michael Bacon

I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.

— Javed Jaffrey