#compose

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. ↗

— Paracelsus

#cases #composed #doubtful #ear #feeling

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#hard #idea #just #know #music

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#child #clap #composer #general #good

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#damned #going #often #our #show

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite. ↗

— Origen

#beginning #being #called #composed #composite

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#composer #his #mean #necessarily #own

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#born #composer #difference #equipment #hears

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#composer #create #each #his #involved

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#contemporary #dictate #ear #eye #madonna

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#already #am #art #because #boring