#compose

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it. ↗

— Rick Wright

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A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. ↗

— Frank Zappa

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The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth. ↗

— Claudio Monteverdi

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I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer. ↗

— Ivor Novello

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The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

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Many composers today don't know what the human throat is. ↗

— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

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The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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