Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. Votes: 3
Gautama BuddhaCompose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks. Votes: 3
William Carlos WilliamsBooks are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. Votes: 2
E. L. DoctorowI compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it. Votes: 2
A. R. RahmanHuman nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music. Votes: 0
Carlos Ruiz ZafonI compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point. Votes: 0
Steven SpielbergBefore I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself. Votes: 0
Erik SatieYou know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. Votes: 0
James WolfeNever compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. Votes: 0
Gustav HolstThe discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. Votes: 0
Madeleine L'EnglePoetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouI felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part. Votes: 0
Pauline OliverosThe trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward. Votes: 0
Igor StravinskyI don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40. Votes: 0
Terry BozzioYou are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you. Votes: 0
Lee J. ColanI attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless. Votes: 0
Alfred SchnittkeIt required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water. Votes: 0
Antoine LavoisierSociety in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. Votes: 0
Ruth BenedictIf they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth. Votes: 0
Dmitri ShostakovichI can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know? Votes: 0
Brian WilsonEach day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoThere is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song Votes: 0
Masanobu FukuokaI am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose. Votes: 0
Alexander BorodinIn order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of. Votes: 0
Robert SchumannI think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet. Votes: 0
Rene MarieTo compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible. Votes: 0
Edward WestonWe all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money. Votes: 0
Charles DickensI am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do? Votes: 0
Edith Pearlman