Composer Quotes

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A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano Concerto. He would… — Ottorino Respighi
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art.… — Corinne Heline
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. — Sri Aurobindo
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine… — Arthur Rubinstein
Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside. — Ludwig van Beethoven
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in… — Warren Zevon
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled… — Ernest Newman
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's… — May Sarton
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds… — Pauline Oliveros
Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact that artists weren't… — Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
As your relationship with the music gets stronger, so does your motivation for playing it and finding different sounds. If you have the idea that… — Maurizio Pollini
I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer,… — Michael Jackson
I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and make sense of… — Libby Larsen
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief… — Ed Mayo
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance. — Ansel Adams
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances… — Michael Bolton
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak — Michael Bolton

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