Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Patterson

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

Robert Moog

When I opened the T-burg shop, I thought I was going into the electronic kit business, ... Then I met a composer who wanted to make electronic music on tape. We got together just for fun.

E. B. White

I just thought he was really composed the whole day,

Michael Feinstein

I hear the name Gershwin and I think of the most incredibly talented, prolific, extraordinary composer of the century, and his music is as fresh and vital today as it was when he originally created it.

Joshua Bell

In a way, the highest praise you could give to a composer like Bach was to take and make your own arrangement; it was sort of an homage to that composer and to his work, so it wasn't considered sacrilegious to do something like that.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Kailash Kher

I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.

The lion's share of what will eventually compose the new interchange will be done in 2006.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

Michael Shannon

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

O. Henry

Seems like he is pretty composed for how young he is.

Brian Eno

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.

Eugene Ormandy

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it soft.

We score a lot but I think we pass real well too. I think we are a very composed team, and relaxed on the ball.

Nobuo Uematsu

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society

Mary Gordon

My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.

Richard Rodgers

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

Jason Mraz

I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know.

She's as composed and graceful and confident as I've seen in any 17 year old. But it's hard to come off that big a win and keep the momentum going. It's so much easier to get there than to maintain that level of success.

She's pretty tough to beat. She's very composed and never seems to miss a putt.

She's doing a great job in the back. Composed and confident back there. So, with that we don't have to take one of our outside half(backs) that we were thinking (and moving them to sweeper).

I give a lot of credit to Kevin Regan. It?s not easy to stay composed when you?re down 3-0. I was proud of the way the guys responded.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Jean Cocteau

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

Mark Recchi

He's very composed at what he does. He's very focused and he knows what he has to do. He knows how to prepare for games. He's very good at it, he doesn't get sidetracked, he knows what he has to do to deal with the media and gets it done, then focuses on what he has to do. He's tremendous at it for 18 years old.

I'm not an architectural composer.

I saw it out of the corner of my eye. I just was lucky the refs saw it. I had to compose myself and get at the line again, hit the shots and help my team win.

(Sutton's) an outstanding pitcher, she really is. She is very composed and she does a good job, she's a competitor.

Anton Seidl

Composers are not all good conductors.

Sergei Prokofiev

My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.