Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer. — Michel Hazanavicius
As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to… — John Luther Adams
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. — David Del Tredici
I've always been a composer dependent on texts. — David Del Tredici
I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background. — Alex Prager
[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal — Megan Hilty
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. — Aldous Huxley
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have… — Albert Schweitzer
I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony… — Isaac Asimov
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It… — Aaron Copland
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of… — Paul Theroux
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that… — Elvis Costello
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
Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have… — Clement Greenberg
I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do… — Benjamin Britten
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a… — Danny Elfman
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play… — Charles Mingus
It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if… — Charles E. Burchfield
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile… — Itay Talgam
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins. — Hans von Bulow

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