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#compose

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Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.


George Crumb


#composers #creatures #crisis #earthly #face

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.


David Del Tredici


#composers #instruments #love #musical #orchestras

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.


Peter Maxwell Davies


#alert #anything #audience #aware #caught

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.


E. L. Doctorow


#compose #composition #down #every #every time

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.


Carlisle Floyd


#audience #being #come #composers #credentials

My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it.


Aileen Wuornos


#appreciate #aware #been #cases #clean

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.


Gordon Getty


#chances #composer #i #just #like

String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.


Roy H. Williams


#composed #describes #determines #effect #energy

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.


Norman Wisdom


#boy #compose #i #learned #music

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.


Evelyn Glennie


#bands #blood #challenge #composers #drum






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