Composing Quotes - Page 6

• Composing demands a degree of isolation.

  Cliff Martinez

  Degrees, Demand, Isolation

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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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• 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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• 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 composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

  Gertrude Stein

  Composition

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.516, Vintage

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• I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

  Casey Abrams

  Fun, Crazy, Track

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• Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

  Martin Fowler

  Thinking, Symphony, People

  "Evolutionary Design". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. November 18, 2002.

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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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• Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

  William P. Perry

  Lonely, Occupation, Film

  Source: www.empressbooks.com

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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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• 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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• Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.

  James Iha

  Months, Three, Joining

  "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.

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• La dernie'  re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie'  re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.

  Blaise Pascal

  Lasts, Firsts

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• Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself.

  Matthew Arnold

  Taken, Men, Numbers

  "Democracy" (1861)

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• I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.

  Stromae

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.

  Walter J. Ong

  Writing, Science, Thinking

  Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.77, Routledge

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• The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Government, Long

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.17

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• From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?

  Auguste Laurent

  Writing, Science, Romance

  David M. Knight, Auguste Laurent (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method”, p.204, Taylor & Francis

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• The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

  Jean Cocteau

  People, Use, Language

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• Composing music is what makes me happy.

  L.Joe

  Make Me Happy, Music Is, Composing Music

  Source: www.allkpop.com

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• When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

  Robert Bly

  Art, Grief, Years

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• When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand. In the hands of a professional pianist, such a piano can bury the strings and the winds and hold its own against the brass. But Mozart wasn't composing for a nine-foot-long, thousand-pound piano; he was composing for a five-and-a-half-foot-long, hundred-and-fifty-pound piano built from balsa wood and dental floss.

  Robert Greenberg

  Dental Floss, Hands, Wind

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• Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

  John Cage

  Music, Piano, Criticism

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• The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

  George Benjamin

  Friendly, Needs, World

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Dancing, Performing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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