Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

Plautus

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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.

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

Willy Ley

Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.

Tim Rice

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

John F. Kennedy

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Louis D. Brandeis

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

Stephen Sondheim

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Mignon McLaughlin

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show

Our valley is pretty much composed of retired people - 'old school.' A lot of those traditions were passed down. There's a group of us that would like to preserve those old values.

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

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.

Kelly Ryan

Certainly, he was very, very well-respected as a composer for his mastery of every genre. That is one thing that is unique about Mozart.

He's going to be a lot more composed this year then he was in previous years. He has something personal to prove.

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.

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

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Mary Gordon

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

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

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).

Mozart was one of those composers who was successful in all genres, and we wanted to show the diversity of his music.

We were more composed in the first half. We got away from our defense and gave them some shots in the second half. They started to get open looks. We pulled it out though, because we really wanted it and were confident in each other.

Bruce Kovner

It has been great fun to find these manuscripts and pull them together into this collection. I trust that what we are doing at the school will make it possible for Juilliard students and scholars to delve into the compositional processes of these great composers and share them with the rest of the world.

Masayoshi Son

A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.

Steve Erickson

The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.

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.

Jordan Farmar

Not really nerve-racking at all. Just got to stay composed and do what we've been doing. If we play defense and rebound and play together, good things happen.

They composed themselves very quickly. They really remained very calm, and they were very determined. You could see it when they walked back into the huddle prior to the overtime, and they just wanted to get it done.