#compose

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#child #clap #composer #general #good

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

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

#composers #find #i #i think #living

I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers. ↗

— Walter Piston

#composed #i #music #must #performers

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

— Samuel Butler

#ear #feeling #instinct #life #like

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#changed #composer #continued #did #half

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. ↗

— Anton Rubinstein

#composer #composers #me #pianist #pianists

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#because #composes #conducts #faking #immediately

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. ↗

— Sivananda

#bad #composed #consequences #details #drops

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. ↗

— Kate Smith

#am #composer #embellish #his #i