“Don't bother looking at the view -- I have already composed it.”
Gustav Mahler
“He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books”
Benjamin Franklin
“I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers.”
Walter Piston
“If you think about it, the word "composing" or to compose, means to put together. So, you have to know what to put together and what to leave out.”
Jan Hammer
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way”
Caroline Gordon
“Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on the backside.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
Walt Whitman
