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Roscoe Mitchell Quote: 'I don't like to box myself ...'

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I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.


Lionel Richie
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Composing music is hard work.


John Williams
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
Olivia Williams
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When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time.
Greg Lake
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Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.


Satyajit Ray
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I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.


Steve Swallow
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.


Truman Capote
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.


Alan Bennett
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I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There's no tricks.
Bruno Mars
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
Benjamin Britten
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When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
Sally Mann
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.


E. Franklin Frazier
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People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.


Ricki-Lee Coulter
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My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.
Brian Eno
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I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
Bruce Cockburn
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Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
Sylvia Kristel
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I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.


Kevin McCloud
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Women drive box office.


Octavia Spencer
I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.
Tony Williams
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My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.


Tinashe
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