#compose

With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer. ↗

— Henry Mancini

#music #music

This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop ↗

— Paul Hindemith

#world #music

Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest he was one of the foremost pioneers in establishing autonomy within the traditional system of music patronage, notwithstanding his efforts to become an independent impressario often proved disappointing. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#composers #covent-garden #handel #impressario #music-patronage

Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms? ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself. ↗

— Lindsey Stirling

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To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#collaborator #composer #film #final #make

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ↗

— Aristotle

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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. ↗

— Maria Weston Chapman

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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#alive #basic #because #being #compose