Best 137 quotes in «composer quotes» category

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

I have declared that I will work free of cost with those composers who are passionate about their work. Sohail Sen is one such lad, whose music in Banjaara has been liked a lot.

I have written six symphonies, they are smaller-scale works. I seem to emit my themes, work them out, combine and intertwine them, and then come to a close. I usually feel that there are no superfluous extras, but probably most composers feel that way about their works.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.

I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

In my years of working in theatre and TV I've learnt that my main skill is not the instrumental playing but the idea of what to play and my interest for so many kinds of music. Often people ask me to contribute to projects when they don't stay in just one genre. I feel more like a composer who just has to play his own things.

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

It's the vision of the composer that we have to determine, and not the absolute mathematical adherence of the score. In my experience, there have been occasions where I feel that a composer has not notated something as they meant to have it represented.

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.

Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In some ways, men are still in the forefront. There is a lot of room for composers of all types of music by both men and women, nowadays.

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.