Top 450 Compose Quotes & Sayings

Works of art inspire me to compose.

There are no rules when I compose songs.

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.

Time did not compose her.

In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.

'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the sounds in your mind and in your voice. So I compose while I'm driving or in the shower.

When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

I am talented enough to compose internationally.

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges.

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

If you compose a song from your soul, it will come out well.

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

My dear sister! I’m amazed to discover that you can compose so delightfully. In a word, your Lied is beautiful. You must compose more often.

I don't compose rap songs or party numbers. I only compose folk.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.

I put one questions. For whom I compose? My answer is I wanted to address to all my people. And if I write music for the Greek people because I'm Greek, I compose for all the people.

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

My dream is to compose for Karan Johar and Aditya Chopra.

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

I always compose on the harmonium.

I'm getting to compose music for diverse language films from all over the country.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose.

I compose for the common man, for our epoch.

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

I like to compose, but only for myself. I write my own lyrics and compose the music around them.

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

I consider everything I compose a gift.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

It is such an honor to be one of the youngest composers to compose for an Amitabh Bachchan film.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

Compose first, worry later.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from a desire to compose an image for cinema. It is not my fault that when I go to Ramallah there is a checkpoint and therefore it enters my film. Tell me a way to avoid that politicized image. The fact is that the police are everywhere, the army everywhere and occupation is total. Whether it's a love story or a thriller, you place the camera and these realities will cross the frame.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.