Composer Quotes · Page 4

I think of myself as a film composer.

— John Williams

I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.

— Nina Simone

I am the only composer who refuses films.

— Anu Malik

I am happy to be a composer.

— Himesh Reshammiya

I am but an architectural composer.

— Alexander Jackson Davis

“God is the composer; you are the song.”

— Steve Maraboli

Sincere composers believe in God.

— John Philip Sousa

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

— Claudio Monteverdi

Ramesh Vinayakam is a maestro music composer and a dear friend, too.

— M. Jayachandran

As a composer, it is a great thrill for me to have an album in the top 15 of the pop charts.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

— Jean Cocteau

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

— Ludwig Goransson

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

— Arthur Honegger

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

— John Philip Sousa

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

— Arthur Honegger

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

— Igor Stravinsky

I am probably the only composer in South India who has delivered many superhit songs but was not considered a success.

— Vidyasagar

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

— Ansel Adams

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want…

— David Amram

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

— Eric Whitacre

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

— Hector Berlioz

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and…

— Pat Metheny

Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach.…

— Karen DeCrow

I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In…

— Barbara Harbach

Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got…

— Richard Rodney Bennett

One of the advantages I've had as an interpreter - because I'm not a composer - is I've had the fortune of…

— Jose Jose

Composer” is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes…

— Anonymous

When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In…

— Roger Ebert

I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the…

— Ringo Starr

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and…

— Alfred Brendel

It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected…

— Leopold Stokowski

I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks"…

— Kurt Ralske

I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly…

— Peggy Lee

In fact, if you take any group of scores, it's likely that fifty to sixty percent are going to be so much…

— Jennifer Higdon

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

To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold…

— Henry Jackman

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

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

— Gian Carlo Menotti