#compose

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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


#cynics #fanatics #government #humane #limit

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.


Moses Mendelssohn


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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.


Gian Carlo Menotti


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The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.


Gerry Mulligan


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What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.


Robert Moog


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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.


Vladimir Nabokov


#book #boy #composed #conceived #girl

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.


Origen


#beginning #being #called #composed #composite

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.


Leo Ornstein


#composer #his #mean #necessarily #own

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.


Leo Ornstein


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