#compose

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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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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Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

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I must say I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers. ↗

— Walter Piston

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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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