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Composer Quotes (page 6)

Richard Wagner quote: "I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and..."
I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner. Richard Wagner
Do what we may to shape the mysterious stuff of which our lives are composed, the dark threads of our destiny will always re-emerge. Victor Hugo
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of..."
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain. Edmund Burke
Mignon McLaughlin quote: "Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if..."
Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show. Mignon McLaughlin
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. Mahatma Gandhi
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining always, disappears. In the weak circles of increasing years; And his short tumults of themselves compose, While flowing Time above his head does close. Andrew Marvell
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit. Upton Sinclair
And at the thought of the punishments Youdi might inflict upon me I was seized by such a mighty fit of laughter that I shook, with mightly silent laughter and my features composed in their wonted sadness and calm. But my whole body shook, and even my legs, so that I had to lean against a tree, or against a bush, when the fit came on me standing, my umbrella being no longer sufficient to keep me from falling. Strange laughter truly, and no doubt misnamed. Samuel Beckett
Jane Jacobs quote: "Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless..."
Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure. Jane Jacobs
The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water. But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to... Sri Chinmoy
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage. Elizabeth Gilbert
If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and all the time, "regardless whether we want to hear it", it roars from loudspeakers, in cars, in restaurants, in elevators, in the streets, in waiting rooms, in gyms, in the earpieces of Walkmans, music rewritten, reorchestrated, abridged, and stretched out, fragments of rock, of jazz, of opera, a flood of everything jumbled together so that we don't know who composed it (music become noise is... Milan Kundera
There is then a world immune from change. But I am not composed enough, standing on tiptoe n the verge of fire, still scorched by the hot breath, afraid of the door opening and the leap of the tiger, to make even one sentence. What I say is perpetually contradicted. Virginia Woolf
How strange and god-like was a composer's power, who from the grave could lead through sequences of emotion, which he alone had felt at first, a girl like her who had never heard of his name, and never would have a clue to his personality. Thomas Hardy

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