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Quotes About Compose

His voice just became the music her soul yearned to embrace, to compose the right notes to make their songs come together again, as easily and beautifully as they had before.
~ Joey W. Hill
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
~ Khalil Gibran
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.
~ Gunther Schuller
I've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.
~ Blake Farenthold
My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.
~ Margaret Atwood
Adam Smith would compose the founding text of modern economics— Inquiry Concerning the Wealth of Nations—in a language that was, it is all too easy to forget, a foreign tongue to him.
~ Arthur Herman
I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
~ A. R. Rahman
I was thrilled when I was offered the opportunity to compose music for three songs penned by Karunanidhi in 'Paasakiligal.'
~ Vidyasagar
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
The novelist is like the conductor of an orchestra, his back to the audience, his face invisible, summoning the experience of music for the people he cannot see. The writer as conductor also gets to compose the music and play all of the instruments, a task less formidable than it seems.
~ Sol Stein
To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.
~ Gillian Flynn
She scrambled to her feet, "We… uh… better get back. The clothes… ya know." True, her ten grand worth of clothes were in the back of his pick-up, but he really needed a moment to… uh… compose himself. "Are you coming?" Well, that's a loaded question.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Take your time. Get serene.
~ Stephen King
The individual is molded by the social world. But social institutions are molded, too, by the requirements of the individuals who compose them.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Jeez. Cool your tool.
~ Ernest Cline
I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for a film. That's a different art altogether.
~ Arijit Singh
I did psychology at university, but I wouldn't say that my music is too influenced by it. The way I make music is a little more to do with an emotional connection. When I compose the melodies for my tracks, it always comes from the heart.
~ Bakermat
Il tempo è una storia e io voglio essere colui che la racconta, non colui che la crea.
~ Bernard Cornwell
There's no written life of him that I know of," Alfred said, "but we must surely compose one. He could be a saint for mothers." "Or for wheelbarrows, lord.
~ Bernard Cornwell
It's hectic at times, but this is what any artiste wants: a hectic life with lot of travelling, performances, lots of love from fans, the opportunity to compose songs back-to-back, and a chance to share the stage with maestros like Zakir Hussain.
~ Shankar Mahadevan
Keep cool my babies.
~ Conan O'Brien
I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. I would really just love to collaborate on that.
~ Tori Amos
They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!" "Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.
~ Suzanne Collins
I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.
~ Joyce Carol Oates