Composer Quotes · Page 10

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

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

— Neville Cardus

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

— Marilyn Horne

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

— Michala Petri

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

— Tom Robbins

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

I've always been fascinated by music and sounds. I was lucky to receive proper classical training as an orchestra player and I'm…

— Lior Ron

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you…

— Gunther Schuller

I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of…

— Aesop Rock

For my qualifying concert, Helmut Walcha would not coach Charles-Marie Widor or any American compositions. In his defense, his forte was Germanic…

— Barbara Harbach

On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling…

— DJ Spooky

Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a…

— Oscar Peterson

Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life.…

— Yanni

I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch…

— Philip Glass

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

— Phil Collins

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

— Anoushka Shankar

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

— Gustav Mahler

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

— Carl Orff

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

— Santiago Calatrava

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly…

— Carlisle Floyd

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Battlestar Galactica' was my first job as a composer. To say that it changed my life is the understatement of the century.

— Bear McCreary

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience…

— John Kricfalusi

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

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

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used…

— Amit Trivedi

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

What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing…

— Bartlett Sher

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

— Maya Angelou

I was offered a few shows, but the money didn't work out, but I'm not very keen on judging such shows. I'm…

— Pritam Chakraborty

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

— Leonard Bernstein

Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they…

— Clement Greenberg

As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright…

— George M. Cohan

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud…

— Alan Menken

I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out.

— Sukhwinder Singh

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

— Charles Ives