#compose

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#child #clap #composer #general #good

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#damned #going #often #our #show

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cynics #fanatics #government #humane #limit

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#composer #feels #good #intently #must

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dynamic #especially #into #kind #orchestra

What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done. ↗

— Robert Moog

#done #driven #everything #i #i think

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#books #bottom #bottom line #compose #create

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style. ↗

— James Tenney

#another #certain #come #composer #defines

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#carl #choreography #composer #now #number