#compose

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Duke of Wellington

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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer. ↗

— Joshua Bell

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If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? ↗

— Charles Ives

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Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

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There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants. ↗

— Arnold Newman

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I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear. ↗

— John Corigliano

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Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours. ↗

— Gioachino Rossini

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