#compose

A painting that is well composed is half finished. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

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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

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There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen! ↗

— J. J. Johnson

#black #composers #doing #ever #film

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. ↗

— Milton Babbitt

#dare #electronic #electronic media #eventual #himself

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. ↗

— Alfred Brendel

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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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