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Great Composer Quotes

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.
- John Corigliano

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
- Ernest Newman

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
- Maurice Ravel

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