#compose

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. ↗

— Howard Dietz

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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

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To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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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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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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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ↗

— Robert Frost

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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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