#compose

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art. ↗

— Robert Schumann

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It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him. ↗

— Warren Zevon

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Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ↗

— John Tyndall

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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. ↗

— Ken Burns

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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. ↗

— Pablo Casals

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When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions. ↗

— John Fahey

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I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

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You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers. ↗

— James Wolfe

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There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

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