Composer Quotes · Page 12

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

— Dhani Harrison

I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want…

— Tod Machover

I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.

— Daniel Handler

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all…

— Frederic Chopin

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

— Nellie Melba

Composers combine notes, that's all.

— Igor Stravinsky

Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.

— John Eaton

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

If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger…

— Jean-Jacques Nattiez

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

— Arturo Toscanini

When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on…

— Brian Eno

Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

— Robert Browning

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

— Peter Sculthorpe

My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is…

— Rufus Wainwright

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to…

— John Eaton

Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom,…

— Gil Evans

Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got…

— Richard Rodney Bennett

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Marilyn Horne

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

I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and…

— Libby Larsen

It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself…

— John Zorn

I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's…

— Cecilia Bartoli

I consider myself a composer.

— Timbaland