Definition of Composing

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Definition of Composing
	Composing of Compose Tending to compose or soothe. Pertaining to, or used in, composition. Related Definitions: Compose, Composition, In, Of, Or, Pertaining, Soothe, Tending, To, Used

Composing Quotations

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. Eliot

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
Igor Stravinsky

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Sydney Smith

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
Franz Schubert

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
Rebecca West

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
Gustav Mahler

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

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.
James Young

There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!
Poppy Z. Brite

Composing Translations

composing in Dutch is montage, zetting
composing in French is componant, composant, montage
composing in German is zusammensetzend, abfassend

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