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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
Kate Voegele / Singer-Songwriter
Play
Song
Two
Freedom Me People
Freedom Always Me
Compose
Recital
Well-Balanced
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In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.
Neil Degrasse Tyson / Astrophysicist
Art
Science
Night
Paint
Symphony
Somebody
Beethoven
Compose
Science Art Will
Gogh
Ninth
Starry
Van
Van Gogh
Whereas
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Whatever I think, talk and do is because of the influence of God. My music is a tribute to Him. Whenever I compose any music, I try to reach God. I would advice all the budding musicians to do the same and see the difference. Thanks to Him, I am what i am today.
Bappi Lahiri /
Advice
Influence
Thanks
Tribute
Budding
Compose
Difference
Musicians
Reach
Whenever
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There are no leftover Tool songs because of the process it takes to compose our songs - the way we hash it out in a room with all three or four of us, that there's tons of riffs and jams and things. But there's no put-together songs that are sitting in the eaves.
Danny Carey /
Hash
Compose
Riffs
Tons
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We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming. It's ludicrous that we have to pretend that non-fiction has to be real in some absolute sense.
David Shields / Author
Boundaries
Confused
Non Fiction
Moment Me Remember
Absolute
Be Real
Compose
Dreaming
Pretend
Ludicrous
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We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
Filippo Brunelleschi /
Ocean
Council
Deliberate
Devices
Experts
Masters
Needed
Works
Compose
Construct
Flowing
Mechanical
River
Secrets
Waters
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
Victoria De Los Angeles /
Pages
Home Music Always
Compose
Fuss
Programs
Natural Way
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I always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it's useful, but it's how your intellect puts the ideas together that will bring hands to write or to play. So, it's really a combination of many things; hearing sounds, hearing layers of counterpoints, of chords.
Alexandre Desplat / Film Composer
Chords
Combination
Intellect
Layers
Good Together Always
Compose
Puts
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I'm a living composer, so I think I just write and compose the music of my time. I'm not saying that I am better than anyone in the past, but I am saying that I may have evolved some emotions that have connected with the people that are living on the planet today with me.
Ludovico Einaudi / Pianist
Time Music Today
Compose
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The way I work is, I always compose a shot list before I talk to anybody, including my DP. So I'll spend a couple months basically creating the movie in my head, so I have a very solid film in my head, where I know every shot, and I know what the transitions between scenes are.
Ari Aster /
Work Always Way
Compose
Work Way Always
Solid
Transitions
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I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.
Ennio Morricone / Composer
Please
Pop Music
Studied
Applied
Compose
Large
Large Audience
Musicians
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Everyone who gave me food, who took away my hunger, inspired me to compose. They told me their stories, and I had no other way to console them than with a piece of music, and that is how I learned. I did not resolve their problems with my songs, but I created a moment of release.
Juan Gabriel / Singer
Console
Hunger
Release
Resolve
Compose
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I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.
Sxip Shirey / Composer
Bells
Cream
Ice
Ice Cream
Order
Thinking
Truck
Associated
Backing
Brains
Breath
Compose
Desk
Orders
React
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I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of music as interests them. Even if you decide that you're never going to compose, you will be a better performer if you concern yourself with the craft of composition.
Chris Thile / Mandolinist
Concern
Compose
Craft
Owe
Performer
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In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music from Harvard and Yale. Enrolled in law school, he was reading dueling opinions by me and Justice Scalia and decided he could compose an appealing comic opera from them.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Comic
Decided
Degrees
Harvard
Law School
Reading
Appealing
Compose
Enrolled
Opened
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Just recently, I thought about how maybe I should have kept using the synthesisers more after 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence'; then, I would have been a more unique soundtrack composer than I am now. It could have been my signature. But then, probably, Bertolucci would not have offered me to compose for his films.
Ryuichi Sakamoto /
Merry
Compose
Lawrence
Offered
Signature
Soundtrack
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Every time I sit down in front of my piano, I like to improvise with the instrument. It depends on my mood of that day what kind of melodies and rhythms I am playing around. Sometimes, even before starting to play I already have a quite clear picture of a song I would like to compose, or at least the sound of it.
Tarja Turunen /
Clear
Depends
Mood
Song
Picture
Time I Am Day
Time Day I Am
Compose
Every Time
Front
Improvise
Instrument
Least
Melodies
Rhythms
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When I was asked to compose a score for... 'Palo Alto,' I first thought to myself, 'What is the house that these characters would want to live in?' I wanted to paint a picture and color scheme that I could work around. I gently apply different daubs to see what fits to match the color I have in mind with these characters.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Paint
Score
Alto
Work Myself Mind
Apply
Compose
Fits
Gently
Scheme
Match
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