@brianchristian : I will never forget a conversation I had with the composer Alvin Singleton at @MacDowell19507. I said, "What’s it like being a composer? Whenever I try to write music I get like 40 seconds in and get stuck." "What you call Being Stuck," he said, "I call Composing." • TwiCopy

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I will never forget a conversation I had with the composer Alvin Singleton at MacDowell. I said, "What’s it like being a composer? Whenever I try to write music I get like 40 seconds in and get stuck." "What you call Being Stuck," he said, "I call Composing."

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