Composer Quotes · Page 11

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

— Jean Cocteau

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

— Signe Baumane

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

— Bill Viola

I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.

— D. Imman

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

— Peter Sculthorpe

The person you care for most is the composer of your emotional symphony

— Danny Chang

To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

— Arturo Toscanini

See, as a music composer, I am not competing with any music composer.

— Ankit Tiwari

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality…

— Tony Bennett

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can…

— Jerry Goldsmith

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

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

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

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

— Marlene Dietrich

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

— Charles Ives

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

— Igor Levit

I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer,…

— Gil Scott-Heron

I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've…

— Anonymous

I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded…

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Barbara Harbach

Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

It's the vision of the composer that we have to determine, and not the absolute mathematical adherence of the score. In my…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

I really want to become, like, a composer for my people, my country that will photograph the things that are happening now…

— Natalia Lafourcade

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be…

— Anthony Davis

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down…

— Francine Prose

Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can…

— Cornelius Lanczos

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

— Mahan Esfahani

I think, when you're a young composer, you're told constantly that what you're supposed to do is figure out what your voice…

— David Lang

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim,…

— Charlie Byrd

The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated…

— Daniel Levitin

My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

— Joshua Bell

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

— Aaron Copland

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

— Bob Fosse

See, I have two selves in me - a musician and a composer.

— Anupam Roy

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

— Mitch Leigh

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

— Michala Petri

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

— Mitch Leigh

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

— Twyla Tharp

'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.

— Robert Gottlieb