#compose

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

— Samuel Butler

#ear #feeling #instinct #life #like

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#circle #composers #guitar #guitarists #i

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

#changed #composer #continued #did #half

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. ↗

— Charles Ives

#author #composer #conceivable #form #formless

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

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

— Mark Russell

#airline #best #composed #entirely #i

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#compose #desires #government #ignore #iraqi

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#devotion #devout #except #feel #force

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? ↗

— Franz Schubert

#different #fantasy #flame #guilty #him

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#being #commitments #composer #conductor #develop