Composer Quotes · Page 6

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

— Carlisle Floyd

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'

— Alfred Schnittke

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

According to me, one composer should do one film.

— Jeet Gannguli

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to.

— Stephen Hough

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

— Gail Zappa

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

— Cecilia Bartoli

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier…

— Shane McCrae

There was nothing extraordinary about the work I was doing as a composer though I had delivered hits.

— Vijay Antony

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.

— Camille Saint-Saens

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

— Oscar Peterson

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind…

— Danny Elfman

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

— Charles Ives

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were…

— Frederick Lenz

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the…

— Igor Levit

You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to…

— Clive Davis

Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit…

— Raymond Scott

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five…

— Robert Wyatt

I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot…

— Matthew James Thomas

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've…

— Ornette Coleman

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave…

— Ben van Berkel

Helmut Walcha was a gifted organist, improviser, and composer! He would play Evensong every week at his church for free, the Dreikönigskirche…

— Barbara Harbach

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down…

— Yo-Yo Ma

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.…

— Michael Jackson

...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how…

— Arthur Rubinstein

When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's…

— Russell Sherman

Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his…

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it…

— Alexander Borodin

The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been…

— Tim Brady

Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time. The first thing that John…

— Christopher Meledandri

Each one of us in Café Tacvba is a composer and we come to the group with songs written out, musically and…

— Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega

“a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses,”

— Aristotle

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

— Richard Strauss

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Arthur Honegger

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

— Arthur Honegger

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

— John Philip Sousa

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

— Ludwig Goransson

My entire family are in music and my father was a classical singer, teacher and composer.

— Kumar Sanu