Famous Quotes & Sayings

I knew he started to simmer a little after that drive, but he composed himself and got ready to hit his second shot. Before, that (bad drive) might have gotten more of a piece of him.

It's hard for people to understand why I'm not happy because we just won 5-0 in a regional semifinal, but I'm not happy. We weren't composed enough in front of the goal. We got an early goal and took our foot off the gas. Quite frankly, we should have scored five or six goals in the first half.

It was a tough game. We stayed composed this time. We had some momentum going into the fourth quarter, and we wanted to keep it going.

Michael Nyman

It was a very curious situation when there were two soundtracks for the film being composed simultaneously - my score, and the songs.

It's going to be an interesting season. We want to be as competitive as we can be on a game-to-game basis. I think this group is going to get better with each game. If we can remained composed and cut down on mistakes, we're going to be OK.

John Holmes

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

James R. Clapper

In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies.

E. B. White

I just thought he was really composed the whole day,

Alex Wurman

I'm not writing music that's composed for the penguins, ... I'm writing music for the people watching the penguins and thinking about how they feel. And I'm thinking about how I might feel in that situation.

Chuck Close

If you think about the way a composer would go in a room and score, let's say, the oboe's gonna play this note, the bassoon's gonna play that note, the french horn will play that note, the resultant sound, the combination of those notes makes kind of a chord, and I'm doing the same thing with color.

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.

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.

I have to stay composed at all times. I just have to keep working and stay positive.

Christopher Moore

He's probably one of the top Native American composers working now. He's flying in from Minneapolis and will be here on Saturday night for the performance.

I'm not an architectural composer.

David Bowie

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

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.

Phil Garner

It might some pitchers, and it didn't rattle Roy, ... I thought tonight he was as composed as I've ever seen him.

Edward Albee

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.

Edgard Varese

The present day composer refuses to die.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

The industry, which is composed of many small, private companies, is suffering from a lack of consumer understanding and poor reimbursement mechanisms in the private and public sectors. This situation will be improved once influential constituents, such as the U.S. government, large employer groups and health plans, and IT giants, make a concerted effort to remove those speed bumps.

The trombone world is starved for repertoire, that's for sure. So when a trombone concerto is commissioned from a frontline American composer for a top end orchestra, it's a big event.

John Cage

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

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

You could tell on the power play how much more composed they are.

The majority of the composers in Icebreaker III are not known outside their region.

Leonard Bernstein

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

Sarah Brightman

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.