Best 137 quotes in «composer quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Sincere composers believe in God.

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

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.

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

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

The model of a composer.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.