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• Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the… — Johannes Brahms
• Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals
• Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of… — Unknown Author
• The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You… — Alan Watts
• All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters… — Corinne Heline
• But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the… — Warren Zevon
• More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer
• The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. — Ansel Adams
• When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different… — Michael Bolton
• Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. — Aaron Copland
• Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know -… — Claude Debussy
• The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel.… — Sergei Rachmaninoff

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