Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama,… — Anthony Hopkins
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? — Charles Ives
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. — Charles Ives
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. — Charles Kettering
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma
I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and… — Yo-Yo Ma
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. — Gustav Mahler
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. — Gustav Mahler
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole. — Gustav Mahler
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He… — Gustav Mahler
My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap,… — Danica McKellar
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. — Camille Paglia
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. — Harold Prince
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I… — Harold Prince
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger… — Nile Rodgers
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to… — Salman Rushdie
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. — Andres Segovia
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the… — Franz Schubert
Sincere composers believe in God. — John Philip Sousa
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of… — John Philip Sousa

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