"My compositions deserve the medal, not me." — Elliott Carter

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• The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are… — Tacitus
• I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms… — Hugo Wolf
• On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma,… — Niccolo Paganini
• All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to… — Corinne Heline
• Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. — Horace
• A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a… — William Hazlitt
• And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because… — Joan Collins
• When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions.… — Richard Avedon
• If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone… — Socrates
• Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet… — Unknown Author
• My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs. — Franz Schubert
• If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each… — Unknown Author

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