#composing

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal. ↗

— Michael Giles

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Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. ↗

— Barbara Kolb

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My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

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However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. ↗

— George Murray

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I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Poetry is composing for the breath. ↗

— Peter Davison

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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