Composing Process Quotes

#1. What, then, are some of the shifts that have happened in our understanding of the composing process that make a focus on digital writing in the writing workshop that much more compelling?

Troy Hicks

#2. I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

Salman Khan

#3. The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

Donald Knuth

#4. A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.

Kate Millett

#5. Our speculations about Shakespeare are almost as multifarious and foolish as our speculations about the maker of the universe, and, like those, are frequently concerned to establish that his works were not made by him but by another person of the same name.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#6. I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

William Bolcom

#7. The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

Vera Wang

#8. I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

George Murray

#9. Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Lukas Foss

#10. Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum.

Mark Batterson

#11. The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there's never been a formula. Each time, it's a new thing.

Trevor Rabin

#12. Who's the genius who thought replacing Dick Clark with Ryan Seacrest was a good idea?

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#13. Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of different parts. - Niles.

Pat Conroy

#14. The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

Albert J. Nock

#15. The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Blaise Pascal

#16. In England, life is a long process of composing oneself ...

Shirley Hazzard

#17. 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

#18. Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful.

Billy Graham

#19. The obscure, unexplainable aspect of the writing process is about how some rhymes appear in your head. It often feels more like tuning in to some kind of channel than composing words in your mind.

Sahara Sanders

#20. Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.

James Newton Howard

#21. I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

David Antin

#22. A werewolf is courting me with a dead rabbit. There's nothing subtle here." "Couldn't

T.J. Klune