Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. — Harrison Birtwistle
I'm not an intellectual composer. — Les Baxter
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this… — Milton Babbitt
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new… — Elliott Carter
Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers… — George Crumb
I have tremendous respect for film composers. — John Corigliano
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too. — John Corigliano
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. — John Corigliano
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from… — John Corigliano
I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer. — Stanley Clarke
The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. — Stewart Copeland
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember… — Gordon Getty
I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a… — Danny Elfman
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball… — Danny Elfman
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in… — Jane Campion
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner… — Peter Maxwell Davies
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. — Brian Ferneyhough
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial… — Tom Glazer
I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers… — Charlie Haden
As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny… — Marvin Hamlisch

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