#composer

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

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In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers. ↗

— Hoagy Carmichael

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In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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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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Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer. ↗

— Richard Ernst

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I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

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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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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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When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. ↗

— Andres Segovia

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