Composer Quote by Arthur Honegger Download Open image “The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.” — Arthur Honegger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composer Firsts Inspirational Requirements
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
To be a composer, you have to be a die-hard music lover - which I am. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
If you're a composer, there's never a moment you're not working. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Copy Share Image
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they wouldn't think...… — George Enescu Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to… — Ernest Gold Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it.… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
