#compose

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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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

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I think a composer is always interested in his last work. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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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

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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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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings. ↗

— Ikue Mori

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ↗

— Plautus

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