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When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. ↗

— Billy Gibbons

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I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

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Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed. ↗

— Allen Johnson

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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ↗

— Walter Kerr

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Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace. ↗

— Henry Knox

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Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

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I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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