Compose Quotes
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
Venerable Bede
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You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.
Frederick Delius
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As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.
Childe Hassam
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Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.
Cameron Dokey
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I always begin to compose the melody first.
Nobuo Uematsu
The Black Mages
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The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
Confucius
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The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work.
Steven Stucky
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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
Plato
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Push your level of understanding so that you know your camera so well that you can frame within a fraction of an inch of the edge of the border, truly compose it how you want it and shoot it.
Jonathan Mannion
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Time did not compose her.
Jane Austen
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I reshuffled the cards that by now we knew well enough. I spoke of the before and the after, of the old generation and of ours, of how we were different, of how she and Stefano were different. And this last argument made a breach, seduced her, I returned to it passionately. She listened to me in silence, evidently she wanted to be helped to compose herself, and slowly she did.
Elena Ferrante
