Composer Quotes · Page 13

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

— Michael Brecker

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

— Jean Sibelius

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

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

— Warren Zevon

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

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

— Constant Lambert

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I…

— Michael Hersch

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

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

— Ray Comfort

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music,…

— Jonny Greenwood

I'm a living composer, so I think I just write and compose the music of my time. I'm not saying that I…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play…

— Frankie Laine

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire…

— Eric Hoffer

Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed…

— Mark Helprin

I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and…

— David Grubbs

Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the…

— A. R. Rahman

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they…

— Edvard Grieg

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

— Nellie Melba

The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is…

— James Fenton

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for…

— Darren Criss

“Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice. It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called…

— Ellen J. Barrier

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak

— Michael Bolton

Because a composer's soul goes into a film, they should do the entire film, even the background score. If not, then don't…

— Jeet Gannguli

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show…

— Vera Nazarian

I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music,…

— Cliff Martinez

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

— John Galsworthy

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind…

— Karen DeCrow

Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I…

— Francoise Gilot

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while…

— Virgil Thomson

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of…

— Louise Talma

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do…

— Giuseppe Verdi

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

— Yann Tiersen

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to…

— Aaron Zigman

Don’t be sad by what you see It’s true life has it’s miseries But one thing’s always worked for me Worry ends…

— Sami Yusuf

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

— Vladimir Ashkenazy

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

— John Eaton

Every music composer has his or her own distinct style. If I listen to any song by - say Mithoon or AR…

— Ankit Tiwari

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

— Ernest Newman

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

— Harold Prince