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Tag Name "Composing" (114)

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Composing music is what makes me happy.
L.Joe
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Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
Liz Phair
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Composing is like making love to the future.
Lukas Foss
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
T. S. Eliot
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Composing mortals with immortal fire.
W. H. Auden
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Composing is improvisation slowed down.
Wayne Shorter
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Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb
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Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.
James Iha
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Composing demands a degree of isolation.
Cliff Martinez
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Composing is a slowed-down improvisation often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.
Arnold Schoenberg
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Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.
Arthur Rubinstein
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Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
William P. Perry
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Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.
James Newton Howard
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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
John Cage
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Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
Arthur Honegger
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Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.
Seth Grahame-Smith
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Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.
Josh Groban
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I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.
Stanley Clarke
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I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.
Steve Erickson
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It's not instant composing it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.
Lennie Tristano
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I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.
Stromae
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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Sydney Smith
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When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
Matsuo Basho
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All of your experience comes into play when you're composing.
Terry Bozzio
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