Compose

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Right now I'm listening to a lot of different things but I listen to a lot of classical music. Eventually I would like to compose and perform classical.

- Ben Harper Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

- Eric Hoffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.

- Grandmaster Flash Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

- Brian Ferneyhough Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

- Johannes Brahms Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

- Chuck Mangione Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We once went 13 games without winning. There's always pressure here. Winning is always important here. How you handle yourself and compose yourself is important. I think the players and staff have shown great dignity despite the criticism leveled at them.

- Alex Ferguson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.

- Adlai Stevenson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

- Charles Fort Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The producer had to stop recording and wait for me to compose myself, ... There are quite a few places in my memoir that I don't read again and don't read out loud at appearances. It's interesting. You can write it down and even work with it in writing, but speaking your words out into the world has a different kind of power.

- Carlos Santana Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

- Franz Schubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

- Roy Lichtenstein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

- Alphonse Karr Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

- Brian Ferneyhough Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

- John Donne Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

- Alicia Witt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

- Victoria de los Angeles Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

- Auguste Renoir Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

- Florence King Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

- Igor Stravinsky Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

- Felix Mendelssohn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

- Ikue Mori Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

- Nicolaus Copernicus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

- George Berkeley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes