Best 137 quotes in «composer quotes» category

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 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'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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sincere composers believe in God.

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

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

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.

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

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

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

The model of a composer.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.