Quotes About Compose

This aggressive gendering of creativity renders it highly exclusionary, as reflected in Clara Schumann's belief that women should not even wish to compose. Equally it genders the sense of identification with the composer that was central to the classical star culture.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

I'm out of sorts all the time,' I said. 'I just don't show it.