Composer Quotes · Page 19

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

— Julie Halston

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

— Igor Stravinsky

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

— George Frideric Handel

I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live…

— Mauricio Kagel

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm…

— Eric Whitacre

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

— Leo Ornstein

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

— John Philip Sousa

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.

— Graeme Murphy

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

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen…

— Patti LuPone

Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in…

— Christophe Beck

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

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs…

— George Gershwin

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to…

— Sarah Brightman

New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme…

— Allan Kozinn

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

— Sarah Brightman

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

— Gerry Mulligan

A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano…

— Ottorino Respighi

I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

— Alexander Borodin

I'm not an intellectual composer.

— Les Baxter

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of…

— Igor Stravinsky

It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise,…

— Anais Nin

As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it…

— Alexander Borodin

I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians…

— Bradley Joseph

I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.

— Walter Cronkite