Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miyavi

Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home.

Penn Jillette

Working in television, you really need a composer who can work in many styles especially when you're working in comedy. Stockdale can do anything.

We're getting quality chances, we just gotta start finishing. We just need to keep composed and do what we're doing.

Jason Silva

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

Michael Shannon

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

Masayoshi Son

A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.

Jordan Farmar

Not really nerve-racking at all. Just got to stay composed and do what we've been doing. If we play defense and rebound and play together, good things happen.

Joshua Bell

In a way, the highest praise you could give to a composer like Bach was to take and make your own arrangement; it was sort of an homage to that composer and to his work, so it wasn't considered sacrilegious to do something like that.

I knew he started to simmer a little after that drive, but he composed himself and got ready to hit his second shot. Before, that (bad drive) might have gotten more of a piece of him.

They composed themselves very quickly. They really remained very calm, and they were very determined. You could see it when they walked back into the huddle prior to the overtime, and they just wanted to get it done.

The world in which we live is composed of many objects...

They play like seasoned vets. They are so composed and confident. All three are competitors. They hate to lose at anything they do.

Michael Feinstein

I hear the name Gershwin and I think of the most incredibly talented, prolific, extraordinary composer of the century, and his music is as fresh and vital today as it was when he originally created it.

I have to stay composed at all times. I just have to keep working and stay positive.

Chuck Close

If you think about the way a composer would go in a room and score, let's say, the oboe's gonna play this note, the bassoon's gonna play that note, the french horn will play that note, the resultant sound, the combination of those notes makes kind of a chord, and I'm doing the same thing with color.

I'm not an architectural composer.

Christopher Moore

He's probably one of the top Native American composers working now. He's flying in from Minneapolis and will be here on Saturday night for the performance.

Alex Wurman

I'm not writing music that's composed for the penguins, ... I'm writing music for the people watching the penguins and thinking about how they feel. And I'm thinking about how I might feel in that situation.

James R. Clapper

In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies.

E. B. White

I just thought he was really composed the whole day,

Kelly Ryan

Certainly, he was very, very well-respected as a composer for his mastery of every genre. That is one thing that is unique about Mozart.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

The industry, which is composed of many small, private companies, is suffering from a lack of consumer understanding and poor reimbursement mechanisms in the private and public sectors. This situation will be improved once influential constituents, such as the U.S. government, large employer groups and health plans, and IT giants, make a concerted effort to remove those speed bumps.

The majority of the composers in Icebreaker III are not known outside their region.

The trombone world is starved for repertoire, that's for sure. So when a trombone concerto is commissioned from a frontline American composer for a top end orchestra, it's a big event.

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Marc Ribot

It's not surprising that a composer learns in detail an instrument. That's not surprising. That should be the first thing a composer does.

An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells.

Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.

Shaan

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

Brian Eno

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

We score a lot but I think we pass real well too. I think we are a very composed team, and relaxed on the ball.