"I compose my pieces with a formula that…" — Thelonious Monk

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• I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself. — Venerable Bede
• All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame… — George Berkeley
• It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. — Johannes Brahms
• We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in… — John le Carre
• My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to… — Sam Abell
• I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance,… — Tori Amos
• Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without… — June Jordan
• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the… — Edward Abbey
• The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must… — Louis Pasteur
• I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire… — Martin Seligman
• Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals… — Charles Lyell

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