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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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I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

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

— Steven Spielberg

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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 have tremendous respect for film composers. ↗

— John Corigliano

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It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

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