#compose

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. ↗

— David Del Tredici

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If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

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No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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Composers are always going back to the past. ↗

— Anne Dudley

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I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on. ↗

— John Eaton

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I just have to take my chances like any other composer. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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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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I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

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If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. ↗

— Levi Strauss

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I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. ↗

— Steve Swallow

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