Composer Quotes · Page 9

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

— Aaron Copland

See, I have two selves in me - a musician and a composer.

— Anupam Roy

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

— George Frideric Handel

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

— Arthur Honegger

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

— Kate Smith

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

— Bill Viola

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out…

— Tori Amos

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found…

— Marvin Hamlisch

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

— Aldous Huxley

Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture…

— Howard Shore

I am a passionate, committed composer, and the guy I used to write musicals with, once he was able to ditch me…

— Eric Garcetti

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop…

— Virginia Graham

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

— Hector Berlioz

My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian…

— Bradford Cox

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't…

— Kurt Masur

With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and…

— Henry Mancini

I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the…

— Stuart Hamm

I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I…

— John Adams

Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three…

— Peter Berg

Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often,…

— John Keltonic

Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence.…

— Charles Hazlewood

The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius.…

— Anthony de Mello

Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me,…

— Ed Mayo

I knew a gentleman that I had worked with over the years, who is no longer with us, and was a great…

— Andy Garcia

All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph…

— Michael Tsarion

“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver…

— Haruki Murakami

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the…

— Warren Zevon

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,…

— Jim Jarmusch

What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

See, as a music composer, I am not competing with any music composer.

— Ankit Tiwari

To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

— Arturo Toscanini

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

— Joshua Bell

The person you care for most is the composer of your emotional symphony

— Danny Chang

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

— Peter Sculthorpe

I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.

— D. Imman

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working.

— Ellen Taaffe Zwilich