Composing Quotes - page 4

When topics are complex and meaty, don't create a never-ending email thread. It's amazing how much time people waste composing and reading carefully-worded essays, when a 5 minute in-person chat would resolve the whole thing. (Justin Rosenstein)
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment. View quote
James Dyson
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. View quote
George Murray
I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway. View quote
Hart Bochner
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. View quote
John Francis
I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing. View quote
Ken Hill
I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal. View quote
Michael Giles
I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old. View quote
Olivia d'Abo
Poetry is composing for the breath. View quote
Peter Davison
I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing. View quote
Roscoe Mitchell
A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing. (Rhianna Pratchett)
When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that. View quote
Sivamani
I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great. View quote
Stanley Clarke
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. View quote
Steve Swallow
I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician. View quote
Tony Williams
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. View quote
Maurice Ravel
The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right . View quote
James Madison
Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds. View quote
ASAP Rocky
Composing music is hard work. View quote
John Williams
Whether computers are used for engineering design, medical data processing, composing music, or other purposes, the structure of computing is much the same. We are extremely short of talented people in this field, and so we need departments, curricula, and research and degree programs in computer science... I think of the Computer Science Department as eventually including experts in Programming, Numerical Analysis, Automata Theory, Data Processing, Business Games, Adaptive Systems, Information Theory, Information Retrieval, Recursive Function Theory, Computer Linguistics, etc., as these fields emerge in structure... Universities must respond [to the computer revolution] with far reaching changes in the educational structure. (George Forsythe)
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons. View quote
György Ligeti
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow. View quote
Aleister Crowley
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. View quote
Aleister Crowley
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music. View quote
Donald Knuth