Articles Quote by Arthur Honegger

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

— Arthur Honegger

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

— Claudio Monteverdi

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

— Igor Stravinsky

I'm not an intellectual composer.

— Les Baxter

“A madman is not less a musician than you or myself; only the instrument on which he plays is a little out of tune.”

— Kahlil Gibran

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching…

— David Bowie

The model of a composer.

— Benjamin Britten

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that…

— Louisa May Alcott

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

— Ned Rorem

I don't really call myself a composer.

— Caroline Shaw

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,…

— Claude Debussy