Composer Quotes · Page 15

Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make…

— Henry Mancini

I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I…

— James Horner

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

— H. L. Mencken

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by…

— Joseph Haydn

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

— Gustav Mahler

What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not…

— Keala Settle

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

— Anoushka Shankar

With every film, for which I'm the only composer, I try to switch genres. I find that really exciting.

— Amaal Mallik

For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to…

— Franz Liszt

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of…

— Hilary Hahn

Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has…

— Bennie Maupin

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of…

— Evelyn Glennie

Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

“Sometime in high school it dawned on me that perhaps I was a little different...I realized music wasn't swirling in the minds…

— Robin Spielberg

I was meant to be a composer. I was meant to meet my wife and have our three children. There were a…

— Tom Kitt

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every…

— Ray Comfort

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

— Yo-Yo Ma

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of…

— Santiago Calatrava

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests…

— Carl Orff

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy…

— Giorgio Moroder

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the…

— Neville Cardus

Mozart for me is the No. 1 composer. His music is not just joy or sadness. It's deep emotion with a touch…

— Alexandre Desplat

I always felt that one day I would have to make the change in my own life, bite the bullet and see…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

— Phil Collins

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of…

— Tom Robbins

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

— Vladimir Nabokov

Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible.

— Michala Petri

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

— Marilyn Horne

What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist.…

— James Newton Howard

Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.

— Jean Sibelius

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was.…

— Warren Zevon

Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students.…

— Jon Gordon

Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for…

— Quincy Jones

Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and…

— Michael Brecker

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a…

— Stanley Clarke

Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced…

— Constant Lambert

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

— Thomas Beecham

'Foolishq' from 'Ki & Ka' gave me a chance to work with renowned composer Ilaiyaraaja and Shreya Ghoshal.

— Armaan Malik

“...I think it's very good music composed by a human composer and sung by two birds with two feet and no feathers!”

— Alexandre Dumas

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

— Igor Stravinsky