Composer Quotes · Page 15

Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the…

— Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

I wanted to be a composer.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and…

— Leo Ornstein

I think, you know, for someone who does play, let's say, old music or, you know, Baroque music or Renaissance music -…

— Mahan Esfahani

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

— Anoushka Shankar

You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty.

— Anonymous

The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for…

— Michael Hersch

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

— Cecilia Bartoli

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

— Matt Groening

Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly…

— Lucy Simon

Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few…

— Joanna Newsom

What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to…

— Charles Mingus

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

— Vladimir Ashkenazy

“You're composing not in relation to the spectacle, but in relation to the drama on the screen.”

— HowardStone

I'm a visual-driven music composer.

— Devi Sri Prasad

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and…

— Eric Whitacre

[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the…

— Jon Gordon

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

— Jim Jarmusch

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have…

— Carla Bley

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

— Leonard Bernstein

One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart.…

— Dave Brubeck

“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

I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it…

— Marvin Hamlisch

I listen to my songs as if it's a song made by some other composer.

— Devi Sri Prasad