#compose

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants. ↗

— Arnold Newman

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ↗

— Anais Nin

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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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There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

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I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. ↗

— Steve Swallow

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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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If you've got some hopelessly overmatched heroes fighting evil and some Imperial types marching, John Williams is your guy. You need a song to make people reach for a box of Kleenex, talk to Randy Newman. But if you want creepy atmospherics and spine-shivering chords to back up your casual death threats, you gotta bring in Danny Elfman. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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