Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

Jean Cocteau

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

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.

It was a tough game. We stayed composed this time. We had some momentum going into the fourth quarter, and we wanted to keep it going.

Michael Nyman

It was a very curious situation when there were two soundtracks for the film being composed simultaneously - my score, and the songs.

Phil Garner

It might some pitchers, and it didn't rattle Roy, ... I thought tonight he was as composed as I've ever seen him.

It's hard for people to understand why I'm not happy because we just won 5-0 in a regional semifinal, but I'm not happy. We weren't composed enough in front of the goal. We got an early goal and took our foot off the gas. Quite frankly, we should have scored five or six goals in the first half.

It's going to be an interesting season. We want to be as competitive as we can be on a game-to-game basis. I think this group is going to get better with each game. If we can remained composed and cut down on mistakes, we're going to be OK.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

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.

John Holmes

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

I am pleased with the team's performance. They played very well and continue to show improvement. We just need to be more composed when we're under offensive pressure in the latter part of the game, but that will come when we get more experience.

Sonu Nigam

I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given music, I have kept my option for the last. I like to make music and not necessarily singing all the songs.

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.

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.

Leonard Bernstein

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

You could tell on the power play how much more composed they are.

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.

Mitch Leigh

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

Nobuo Uematsu

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

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.

Sarah Brightman

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.