#compose

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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If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Steve Swallow

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I've always been a composer dependent on texts. ↗

— David Del Tredici

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Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

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God is the composer; you are the song. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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