Best 137 quotes in «composer quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Composers combine notes, that's all.

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

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

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

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

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

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

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

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

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 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 always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

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.

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

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

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

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 feel very free and very happy to be 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.

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 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 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 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 have tremendous respect for film composers.

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

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

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

I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.

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 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.

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

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.