Composing Quotes - Page 5

• 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, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  Gary Hamel

  Stupid, Writing, Garden

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• Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Stars, Men, Gaza Strip

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• The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hate, Lying, Night

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

  B. F. Skinner

  Men, Years, Doe

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• Composing demands a degree of isolation.

  Cliff Martinez

  Degrees, Demand, Isolation

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• One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.

  Annie Besant

  Mother, Lying, Restoration

  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Mabel Collins, George Robert Stow Mead (1892). “Theosophical Review”

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• Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

  Satyajit Ray

  Daughter, Mother, Two

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

  Gustav Mahler

  Musician

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• The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Song

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.38, Black Irish Books

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• What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power; that the men of the circles composing this elite, severally and collectively, now make such key decisions as are made; and that, given the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power now available, the decisions that they make and fail to make carry more consequences for more people than has ever been the case in the world history of mankind

  C. Wright Mills

  Mean, Men, Keys

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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• I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.

  Cliff Martinez

  Band, Behind The Scenes, Kind

  "Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed". Interview with Adam White, thequietus.com. July 1, 2016.

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• As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

  Phil Collins

  Machines, Drummer, Composer

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.

  Jimmy Page

  Dream, Art, Guitar

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.

  David Levithan

  Song, Mean, Creating

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.133, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Meditation, Attention, Firsts

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away.

  Saul Bellow

  Taken, Keys, People

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.422, Penguin

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• Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.

  Susan Cain

  Drama, Reality, Self

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• 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, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

  Josh Groban

  Home, Race, Piano

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• All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

  Len Lye

  Figures, Composing Music, Ifs

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• That's why I'm so passionate about making music for movies because you dive in and find the best ideas to bring tolife a collective piece of art. ... [Composing] is not a job for me. And that explains why I never stop. Even though it's tough on your body and your brain and the sacrifices you have to make, what can I do? I'm passionate about it so I never stop.

  Alexandre Desplat

  Music, Art, Jobs

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• If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

  Muriel Spark

  Death, Practice, Eggs

  "The prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The comforters; The only problem; The driver's seat; Memento mori".

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• And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan

  Steve Kluger

  Character, Musical, Biographies

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.38, Penguin

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• Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is going to play.” This is called composing. But last night, the Composer was not muttering. He was not humming. He was not moving, or even breathing. This is called decomposing.

  Daniel Handler

  Moving, Mean, Night

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• When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.

  J. Cole

  Mean, Common Threads, Waiting

  Source: www.wbur.org

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