#compose

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. ↗

— Asa Gray

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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#bad #composers #good #good music #hear

Sincere composers believe in God. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#composers #god #sincere

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

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I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#difficult #find #i #playing #very

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. ↗

— Levi Strauss

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I have tremendous respect for film composers. ↗

— John Corigliano

#film #i #respect #tremendous #tremendous respect

If you've got some hopelessly overmatched heroes fighting evil and some Imperial types marching, John Williams is your guy. You need a song to make people reach for a box of Kleenex, talk to Randy Newman. But if you want creepy atmospherics and spine-shivering chords to back up your casual death threats, you gotta bring in Danny Elfman. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#death

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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