A Quote by Arthur Honegger

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

Arthur Honegger

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Composing Harmless Madness Profession

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Arthur Honegger
Swiss - Composer
March 10, 1892 - November 27, 1955

My hobby is my profession, and therefore, I keep on composing creatively.

Himesh Reshammiya

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

Paulo Coelho

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Saul Bellow

Composing a melody or a western song is easier than composing a commercial number.

Mani Sharma

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Samuel Johnson

You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Tennessee Williams

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

William P. Perry

He’s harmless, poor thing. That’s what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn’t mean I have to like them.

Franny Billingsley

I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has to go out. It has to become sounds and be written. It's an emotion that you can't repress.

Alexandre Desplat

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Lukas Foss

I used to do most of my composing at a little table in a cafe. Composing for 52 instruments, I had to figure out how to accommodate myself to the small table.

Krzysztof Penderecki

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

Samuel Barber

Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.

Alexei Panshin

For me acting is just a profession. As much passion I have for my profession, I always seperate profession from life.

Ashish Vidyarthi

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

Michael Gruber

To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.

Edna Ferber

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