#composer

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer. ↗

— Richard Ernst

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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist. ↗

— John Eaton

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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it. ↗

— Hanns Eisler

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A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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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

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It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. ↗

— Charles Ives

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Composers are not all good conductors. ↗

— Anton Seidl

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