Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Steve Walsh

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

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.

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.

John Cage

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

The lion's share of what will eventually compose the new interchange will be done in 2006.

Edward Albee

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.

Edgard Varese

The present day composer refuses to die.

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.

He's played well in all his appearances. He looked very composed and after giving up an early goal, he didn't panic.

This show will make you laugh, it will make you cry and will leave no question in your mind as to why Puccini is hailed as one of the greatest opera composers of all time.

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

Patrick Doyle

Sometimes Ive listened to film scores and felt, 'Did the composer phone that in?'

O. Henry

Seems like he is pretty composed for how young he is.

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.

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Jean Cocteau

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

Mark Recchi

He's very composed at what he does. He's very focused and he knows what he has to do. He knows how to prepare for games. He's very good at it, he doesn't get sidetracked, he knows what he has to do to deal with the media and gets it done, then focuses on what he has to do. He's tremendous at it for 18 years old.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.

Eugene Ormandy

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it soft.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

We just tried to stay composed ourselves. We knew if we could get them frustrated, it would be to our benefit. We knew they go from the guards into the post.

Jessye Norman

I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know, when it was composed and who was the poet and all of that and whether Strauss or Wagner or French Belioz, Duparc or Debussy or whatever.

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.

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.

Steve Erickson

The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.

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.