#compose

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building. ↗

— David Eagleman

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What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. ↗

— Fred Frith

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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#hard #idea #just #know #music

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#damned #going #often #our #show

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

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What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done. ↗

— Robert Moog

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I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style. ↗

— James Tenney

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