Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say… — Kurt Masur
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done. — Robert Moog
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best. — Leo Ornstein
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. — Leo Ornstein
I think a composer is always interested in his last work. — Gyorgy Ligeti
A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a… — Johannes Rau
The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had… — Anton Seidl
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. — Toru Takemitsu
I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to… — Andrew Lloyd Webber
I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about. — Warren Zevon
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music. — Virgil Thomson
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I… — Roger Ebert
I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for… — Carla Bley
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. — Cecilia Bartoli
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. — Gavin Bryars
I'm not an architectural composer. — Harrison Birtwistle

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