Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young. — Cornelia Funke
My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in… — Evelyn Glennie
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos. — Evelyn Glennie
Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. — Brian Greene
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. — Brian Greene
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a… — Ray Comfort
As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that… — Darren Criss
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes… — Park Chan-wook
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. — Howard Dietz
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the… — Paul Engle
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers… — Brian Eno
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30%… — Brian Eno
I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie. — Enya
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good… — James Fenton
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. — Lion Feuchtwanger
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. — Marvin Hamlisch
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself… — Jascha Heifetz
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked. — Judy Holliday
I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where… — Anthony Hopkins

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