Composing Quote by Shirley Hazzard Download Open image “In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.” — Shirley Hazzard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composing England Life Life is Long Oneself Process
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People say life is short, but apart from de-compose what do you do that takes longer than life? — Nic Copy Share Image
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts,… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“But that's a way to go on loving--a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“I see that you are highly defensive." . . . Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude.” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere,knows the whole thing." [p. 38]” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Dark had meant Dora, had meant words and events sordid with self. Struggling to the light from Dora's darkness, Caro had acquired conscience and… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, as now, her heart twisted and broke under his determination to wound her. At others, she was almost convinced that she felt nothing… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Chief Coordinator of DALTO – the Department of Aid to the Less technically Oriented, working to induce backwards nations to come forwards.” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
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As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb Copy Share Image
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.' — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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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 Copy Share Image
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — John Cage Copy Share Image
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I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
