Composer Quotes

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The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitationsâ€¦repeatedly, and… — Daniel Handler
Composerâ€ is a word which here means â€œa person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is… — Daniel Handler
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest… — Robert Schumann
Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33") — John Cage
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? — Vera Nazarian
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. — Tom Robbins
When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could… — Ayn Rand
We are Godâ€™s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a… — Jack Canfield
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and… — David Mitchell
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact itâ€™s essential to slow down and read every… — Francine Prose
As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you… — C.S. Lewis
I hadnâ€™t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadnâ€™t predicted. It left an imprint in… — Jojo Moyes
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely… — Jonny Greenwood
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence. — Barry Finnerty
I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer. — Charles Mingus
Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the… — Ted Shawn
If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the… — Jean-Jacques Nattiez
To talk about communication theory without communicating its real mathematical content would be like endlessly telling a man about a wonderful composer, yet never letting… — John R. Pierce
As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into… — Eric Whitacre

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