Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
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Sincere composers believe in God.
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Composers are always going back to the past.
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Composers are not all good conductors.
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Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
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I have tremendous respect for film composers.
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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
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In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
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All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.
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What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
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Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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