Composer Quotes · Page 2

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

— David Del Tredici

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

— Igor Stravinsky

I am happy to be a composer.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I am but an architectural composer.

— Alexander Jackson Davis

I am the only composer who refuses films.

— Anu Malik

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I consider myself a composer.

— Timbaland

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Dhani Harrison

A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.

— Steven Price

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

— Mikhail Glinka

As a film composer, you have to be a good collaborator.

— Ramin Djawadi

I have too much work as a composer to concentrate on singing.

— Himesh Reshammiya

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

— Thomas Beecham

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

— Alan Hovhaness

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

— Daniel Handler

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind…

— Danny Elfman

The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much…

— Howard Shore

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm…

— Aphex Twin

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

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid…

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Julie Halston

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better…

— Jerome Kern

There was nothing extraordinary about the work I was doing as a composer though I had delivered hits.

— Vijay Antony

Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a…

— Nat Hentoff

I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the…

— Stuart Hamm

I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I…

— John Adams

With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and…

— Henry Mancini

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't…

— Kurt Masur

This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be,…

— Aaron Copland

An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and…

— Philip Taaffe

Notes are part of life for any composer for hire. There's no way around it. I think anyone who has done even…

— Christophe Beck

I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn;…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is…

— Terry Teachout

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more…

— Arthur Koestler

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.…

— Michael Jackson

I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people.…

— Missy Mazzoli

Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were…

— Michael Kosser

I was playing in a band and was approached to score an independent film. I had never done it, but had written…

— Douglas Pipes