Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. — Ansel Adams
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
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. — Leonard Bernstein
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
I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it. — Sarah Brightman
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
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
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
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out. — Ernest Newman
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
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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