Composer Quotes · Page 9

Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.

— Adrian Younge

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

— Howard Dietz

I'm not just a music composer, but also a music lover.

— Devi Sri Prasad

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

— Camille Paglia

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

— Leonard Bernstein

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

— Rachel Hartman

I feel I am fortunate that I could become a composer.

— Mohan Sithara

I really like acting, but logically getting on stage to transmit the work of a composer who is inspired by God is…

— Jose Jose

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

— Leonard Bernstein

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

— Ramin Djawadi

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

— Ernest Newman

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I…

— Charles E. Burchfield

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a…

— Randy Newman

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

— Ned Rorem

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

— Kurt Ralske

I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play…

— Frankie Laine

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 a living composer, so I think I just write and compose the music of my time. I'm not saying that I…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and…

— Libby Larsen

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every…

— Ray Comfort

I was meant to be a composer. I was meant to meet my wife and have our three children. There were a…

— Tom Kitt

“Sometime in high school it dawned on me that perhaps I was a little different...I realized music wasn't swirling in the minds…

— Robin Spielberg

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

— Albert Schweitzer

Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the…

— John Keltonic

I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and…

— Bernard Herrmann

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to…

— Glenn Gould

Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and…

— Aaron Copland

I don't care how much people understand what it is that I'm doing, except if they're players in my ensemble or other…

— Steve Reich

“The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place.…

— Hector Berlioz

Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his…

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

— Morton Gould

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

— Walter Cronkite

[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal

— Megan Hilty

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

— Pierre Boulez

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

— Gianni Versace

It's a very fun project as a composer to work on a movie that has music in its core.

— Santhosh Narayanan

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

— Isadora Duncan

“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.”

— Amit Kalantri