#compose

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ↗

— Walter Kerr

#clever #composed #enough #half #idiots

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#few #his #imagination #limited #man

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

#composed #earth #mere #our

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another. ↗

— John le Carre

#compose #day #dress #every #every day

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#compose #easier #form #just #manual

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#begun #composers #diminishing #further #i

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#both #came #canon #composers #depended

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too. ↗

— John Corigliano

#because #composer #every #glad #grew

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge. ↗

— John Corigliano

#challenge #composers #concert #concert hall #enormous