Well, I did not find "Composed" to be the most arresting book in the world.
That's why those composers who say "this is how I compose and I'm going to do it for the rest of my life" are so wrong.
I think she's composed enough to be able to hit them, so I had to teach her a way that I thought would be successful for her.
As I was composing to myself, I thought back to hearing jazz artists people using their instruments beyond the role of a device that reproduces the noises that someone's written on a paper.
I said to myself that I had to be composed and respectful but you can't control the passion … I didn't know what I was doing, I felt the ground slip from under me and I've probably pulled something, but it's OK, I can't feel it now.
Chris Marker's La Jetée is the only film I know to be composed entirely of stills (apart from one clip where a woman is waking from sleep), but the technique draws so much attention to itself that it seems more like a dare than an experiment.
"I am confident at the moment but I knew Luke was a tricky opponent and I had to be composed the whole match," Dimitrov, 23, told BBC Sport.
I made it because I wanted to be able to compose music, but I'm highly visually oriented and don't understand notation.
One of Godwin's earliest memories was of composing a poem entitled 'I wish to be a minister' (CNM I, 15), and a favourite childhood entertainment was to preach sermons in the kitchen on Sunday afternoons.
So Neil and Alex used to target me in training, be really hard on me, even fall out with me, just so I could learn to be more composed in the long run.
(He once wrote, "I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously").
