Composer Quotes · Page 17

I'm a fan of 20th century orchestral music, the experimental avant-garde composers of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. In horror movies you…

— Christopher Young

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

— Kenny Burrell

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

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder…

— May Sarton

You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the…

— Igor Levit

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk…

— Jane Campion

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

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

— Bradford Cox

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

— Neville Marriner

I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I…

— Frederick Lenz

The culture of suppressing women composers and performers goes centuries back in Germany and other countries. Just think of Fanny Mendelssohn and…

— Barbara Harbach

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 not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in…

— Tom Lehrer

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what…

— James Tenney

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.

— Joshua Bell

I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained…

— Phil Woods

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

— Carter Burwell

For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and…

— Woody Allen

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure…

— Igor Stravinsky

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

— Warren Zevon

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to…

— Albert Schweitzer

Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is…

— John Kinsella

It takes lot of years for a composer to make a name.

— Amaal Mallik

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never…

— Steven Price