Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Rice

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

John F. Kennedy

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Louis D. Brandeis

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

Kailash Kher

I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

Plautus

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

Helen Garner

I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of... rather an introverted child, probably.

Gian Carlo Menotti

My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

Bill Viola

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

Andrea Hirata

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

Yngwie Malmsteen

This was a huge, huge undertaking. I composed this concerto from the ground up. It took about two years total to compose, but there were interruptions when I was touring and making rock albums,

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

A. R. Rahman

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

A. R. Rahman

Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.

A. R. Rahman

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.

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.

Steve Walsh

You just want to have yourself mentally composed and not get rattled.

We've got right now what I was hoping to have in mid-January. I see a really seasoned, composed team.

Damon Galgut

Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

We have something by every famous composer and a mother lode of American music.

I saw it out of the corner of my eye. I just was lucky the refs saw it. I had to compose myself and get at the line again, hit the shots and help my team win.

We were more composed in the first half. We got away from our defense and gave them some shots in the second half. They started to get open looks. We pulled it out though, because we really wanted it and were confident in each other.

We support reform of the U.S. immigration system, but we also estimate about 20 percent of the current residential construction workforce nationwide is composed of foreign-born workers.

Robert Moog

When I opened the T-burg shop, I thought I was going into the electronic kit business, ... Then I met a composer who wanted to make electronic music on tape. We got together just for fun.

Robert Schumann

To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

Arthur Honegger

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead

Daniel Handler

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

David Del Tredici

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.