Composer Quotes
392 quotes by 291 authors
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
— Ansel Adams
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To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting…
— Dirk Benedict
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
— Leonard Bernstein
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and…
— Johannes Brahms
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I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.
— Sarah Brightman
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I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces…
— Sarah Brightman
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The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
— Benjamin Britten
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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece…
— Dave Brubeck
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
— Pablo Casals
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I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go…
— Tori Amos
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated…
— David Amram
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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the…
— Ian Anderson
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The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again…
— William Beebe
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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible…
— Jean Genet
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he…
— Martin Seligman
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
— Ernest Newman
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Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.
— Louise Talma
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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play…
— Alan Watts
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