Compose Quotes

You're not limited to a song structure, as you are in pop music. For a song, you've got an intro, a chorus, a bridge, a verse, a chorus, et cetera, and you're done. This is completely open to going left or right at any point. A scoring composer isn't bound to any genre. - Scott Gordon

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer. - Cliff Martinez

You won't find anyone more composed closer to goal. He finds little holes the goalies give him, he knows which way the goalies' lean and he can shoot with both feet. Off the ball he makes great runs. For me, around the goal he's one of the best finishers. - Chris Armas

You walk back there and see a box lying on a pile of junk -- a deceased individual laid out in a burial suit, a blue suit, obviously embalmed in the box he was supposed to be cremated in -- decomposed. - John Bankhead

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

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. - James Wolfe

You just want to have yourself mentally composed and not get rattled. - Steve Walsh

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights. - Elvis Costello

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends... to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you -without these friendships - life, what cauchemar! - T.S. Eliot

You could tell on the power play how much more composed they are. - Clarke MacArthur