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477 Composer Quotes

I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

Am Day Details ForTheDay
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Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

Attempting Down Most Muse
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If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'

Around Downstairs Go Hanging
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People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

Always Being Clues Down
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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

Book Dip Out Songs
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Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I see that it's too long, I'll start cutting.

Cutting Finished ISee IWrite
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If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
About Else Equation Know
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I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

Around Fashion Feel Taste
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I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

Comic Consider Entertain Find
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Anybody Does Happy Know
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

Balm Beauty Intended Kind
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Beautiful Divine Heart Music
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

Border Country Love Should
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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

All Your Life Am Life Man
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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Act Acts Basic Complicated
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Capacity Care Deepest Feel
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You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

Children Make Must Work
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Cannot Humanity Leaves Live
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

First Life Purpose Purposes
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Also Composers Everyone Everywhere
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To retire is to die.

Retire To Die Death
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To retire is to begin to die.
Begin Die Retire
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Music will save the world.

Music Save Will World
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Art Interpretation Play Written
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

Most Noticed Perfect Technique
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

Complex Cunning Heart His
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Down Heart Melody Never
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The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

Another Been Beginning Child
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To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.
World Whole Person Just
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To live is not enough; we must take part.

Live Enough Take Must
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I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

Think Old Love Admire
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In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
Beauty God Kindness Love
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Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

Because Talent Vain Happen
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human.

Main Thing Afraid Human
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Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe a moment that never was before and never will be again

Second Moment Unique Each
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Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
Every Wrong Seems Possible
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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

True music Repeat Thought Inspirations
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I like to think of music as an emotional science.

I like Music Emotional science
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Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

Look Piano Black notes Figure out
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Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

Jazz Best things Life Friend
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It is always possible to create something original.

Always possible Create Original
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Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.

Music Vibration Unquestionably Physical reaction
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I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.
Frequently Hear music Noise
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Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

Writing music Inspiration Hard work
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What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

Work Somebody Yourself
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Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.

Entire annual Songs Inspiration
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When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

Normal mood Music My fingers
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The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

Boys Small ideas Dress
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Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
Composers Ideas Strange instruments
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I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Famous Great Never Only
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