#composer

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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

— Howard Dietz

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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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I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. ↗

— Fred Frith

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I think a composer is always interested in his last work. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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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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