Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Ribot

It's not surprising that a composer learns in detail an instrument. That's not surprising. That should be the first thing a composer does.

Sivamani

I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.

David Del Tredici

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

Patrick Doyle

Sometimes Ive listened to film scores and felt, 'Did the composer phone that in?'

James Tenney

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.

John Eaton

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

John Eaton

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

Daniel Handler

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

Arthur Honegger

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead

T. S. Eliot

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

Sri Aurobindo

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

John Norman

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

George Hansen

He's a proven quantity here. - He has a tremendous mastery of his off-speed stuff and he can really mix it up.

Frantz Fanon

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

Gregory Bateson

After mastery comes artistry and not before.

Jenny Offill

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.

Oswald Chambers

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

Deepika Padukone

My choices are like my fingerprints, they make me unique

Mark Cuban

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

Carol Leifer

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

Alan Rudolph

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

Charles Taylor

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.

Charles Edward Merriam

Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.

Charlize Theron

I'm interested in human behavior, and what happened in my family life is definitely not a unique story. There are aspects of that I'm sure you can see through the work. But I'm just looking for something that touches me.

Charlaine Harris

Eric turned to me, kissed me on the lips very lightly, and looked at my face for a long moment. “He’ll spare you,” Eric said, and I understood he wasn’t really talking to me but to himself. “You’re too unique to waste.” And then he opened the door.