#compose

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#feel #free #happy #i #i feel

The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it! ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#all things #because #big #companies #company

Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning Baroque 'opera seria'; however, paradoxically his personal obsession to obtain complete artistic freedom generated disastrous side-effects that eventually impeded the progress of opera in London. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#classical-music #composers #covent-garden #handel #london

The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself. ↗

— Lindsey Stirling

#hip-hop #music #violin #violinist #music

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer. ↗

— Tori Amos

#composer #dreams #go #i #i think

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. ↗

— Tori Amos

#before #bucket #closed-minded #company #compose

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#appear #cedar #colours #composed #covered

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well. ↗

— Eric Bana

#always #because #composes #director #find

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please. ↗

— Samuel Barber

#composer #football #forget #go #i

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself. ↗

— Venerable Bede

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