Best 137 quotes in «composer quotes» category

The terms that Sforza Cesarini offered Rossini, 400 Roman Scudi, were not ungenerous, though it must have been galling for Rossini to see the Figaro, Luigi Zamboni, getting almost twice as much, and the Almaviva, Manuel Garcia, being offered three times the amount. Of the first-night cast, only the 'altro buffo', Bartolomeo Botticelli, who played Bartolo, and the 'seconda donna', Elisabetta Lowselet, who played Berta, were paid less than the composer.

We are all beautiful instruments of God. He created many notes in music so that we would not be stuck playing the same song. Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your journey and play on. Nobody will ever reach ultimate perfection in this lifetime, but trying to achieve it is a full-time job. Start now and don't stop. Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society, tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.

A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Composers are not all good conductors.

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.

Composers combine notes, that's all.

[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

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

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

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

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 wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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