#compose

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. ↗

— Alex North

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I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer. ↗

— Ivor Novello

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The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors. ↗

— Anton Seidl

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Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs. ↗

— Eugene Field

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Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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Sincere composers believe in God. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

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If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. ↗

— Levi Strauss

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