Best 137 quotes in «composer quotes» category

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see what it is to be a composer who conducts rather than the other way around.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

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.

I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

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

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

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 feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

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 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 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 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 just have to take my chances like any other composer.

I have tremendous respect for film 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 listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

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'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.

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.

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

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

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

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

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

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

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

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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