#compose

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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I should just stay composed and run to the finish line. ↗

— Asafa Powell

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Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody. ↗

— Andre Rieu

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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. ↗

— Andres Segovia

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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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