Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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'm not an architectural composer.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I feel very free and very happy to be a 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.

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.

E. B. White

I just thought he was really composed the whole day,

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.

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.

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.

Mitch Leigh

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

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.

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.

Nobuo Uematsu

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

Jean Cocteau

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Leonard Bernstein

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

Sarah Brightman

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