#compose

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

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A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it. ↗

— Mikhail Glinka

#composer #creates #music #nation #only

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ↗

— Walter Kerr

#clever #composed #enough #half #idiots

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#few #his #imagination #limited #man

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#award #been #broadway #come #composers

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

#composed #earth #mere #our

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#also #any #bad #being #beings

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it. ↗

— Rick Wright

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I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer. ↗

— Joshua Bell

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