Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 276 authors

I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch their music, I… — Philip Glass
I don't think they understand it's as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a… — Marvin Hamlisch
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the… — Glenn Gould
Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about style and language… — Judith Barrington
The composer makes plans, music laughs. — Morton Feldman
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the… — Jerome Kern
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and… — Antonio Damasio
A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving… — Cornelius Cardew
Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the… — David Del Tredici
I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer. — Joshua Bell
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. — Gavin Bryars
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him… — Desmond Tutu
Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled. — H. L. Mencken
Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it:… — Nils Frahm
Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it. — Leonard Bernstein
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. — David Del Tredici
Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart. — Robert Browning
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. — John Philip Sousa
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the… — Ludwig van Beethoven
You should never trust anyone who listens to Mahler before they're forty. — Clive James

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