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People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.

~Arthur Laffer

Topics: Change Changes Composition Government Income Location People Policies Response Volume

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Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

~Arthur Murphy

Topics: Cheerfulness Composition Health Ingredient Principle Sir

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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

~Bianca Jagger

Topics: Admit Always Been Composition Contra Made Mistake Opposition Understanding War Willing

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I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

~Bill Laswell

Topics: Am Cliches Composition Everything Experimental Experimenting Generic Less Like Music Noise People Pop Say Song Than Think Unknown Until Whether Who You I Think I Am

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Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Companies Composition Creates Different Different Places Experience Fast Growing Issues Largest Leadership Lot Moment More Most Often Particular People Places Requires Role Scale Specific Specifically Stress Team Time Who

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Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Arithmetic Boxes Chess Child Classical Composition Cut Digital Get Little Music Musicians Orchestral Perhaps Possibilities Reason Roles Say Should Terms Up Worlds You

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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Been Benefit Certain Composition Cool Did Distance Europe Had Increasing Left Observing Relevance Several Teacher Tendencies Thought Would Years

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The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

~Bruno Latour

Topics: Common Composition Definition Politics World Would

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My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.

~Bryce Dessner

Topics: Background Classical Composition Did Graduate Graduate School Guitar Music School Seriously Studying Time Very

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The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any major composer from Debussy to Ravel to Mozart to whoever else - you can kind of hum it.

~Bryce Dessner

Topics: About Any Bars Composer Composers Composition Else Four Hum Kind Major Most Mozart Much Music Pretty Realised Remember Thing Whoever You

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