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I think a composer is always interested in his last work. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

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My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear. ↗

— Danica McKellar

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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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