#posing

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#also #complex #composing #fantastic #frank

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing. ↗

— Roscoe Mitchell

#composing #i #like #myself

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music. ↗

— Josh Groban

#bell #composing #day #drums #every

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#come #composing #formula #i #myself

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point. ↗

— Sean Booth

#claustrophobic #exposing #i #i think #particular

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ↗

— Fanny Brice

#forget #know #later #pose #posing

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #convenience #doubling #energy #energy consumption

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today. ↗

— James Callaghan

#am #because #blue #blue sky #i

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it. ↗

— John Chamberlain

#imposing #interested #material #me #more

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#career #catch #catch phrase #come #composing