#compose

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ↗

— Robert Frost

#half #keep #nothing #other #people

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#ear #feeling #instinct #life #like

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England. ↗

— John Corigliano

#automatically #because #british #composer #england

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly. ↗

— Geddy Lee

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Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. ↗

— Anton Rubinstein

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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. ↗

— Mark Russell

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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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