Composes Quotes

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.