#compose

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#chemist #composer #i #knew #rather

Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist. ↗

— John Eaton

#composer #first #first of all #i #me

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#events #here #neither #nor #officer

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#composes #himself #than #wiser

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. ↗

— Fred Frith

#deconstruct #extent #i #i can #i think

When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#arrangements #back #combination #composed #few

I think a composer is always interested in his last work. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#composer #his #i #i think #interested

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#bach #began #compose #fifteen #had

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#bother #composer #could #had #say

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#bother #composed #i #looking #view