Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling… — Alfred Brendel
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman
It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of… — Richard H. Baker
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on… — Levi Strauss
That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental… — Morton Gould
I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to… — John Eaton
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. — Elliott Carter
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. — Arthur Honegger
Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer. — Richard Ernst
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from… — Hanns Eisler
I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer. — Robert Patterson
Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with… — Gunther Schuller
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours. — Gioachino Rossini
I consider myself a composer. — Timbaland
Richard Wagner: A composer whose music is better than it sounds — Mark Twain
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. — Ansel Adams
It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color. — Cecilia Bartoli
Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist. — John Eaton
The person you care for most is the composer of your emotional symphony — Danny Chang
Architect, Astronaut, Composer, Writer, Artist, Poet, Love, Lover, Friend, Guide, Perfect Clarity, Complete Madness, Captain, Slave, Passion, Indifference, Hate, Joy, Full, Empty, Lonely, Lost, Complete,… — Eric Nickel

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