Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play… — Samuel Barber
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. — John F. Kennedy
It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to… — Ayumi Hamasaki
At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it… — Thomas Dolby
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged. — Maya Angelou
I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a… — Jacques Ibert
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesnâ€™t. — Aaron Copland
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These… — Gil Scott-Heron
I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn; but to be… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute,… — Joseph Haydn
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak,… — Franz Liszt
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's… — Claude Debussy
The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not… — Sergei Rachmaninoff
With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one… — Henry Mancini
Composers combine notes, that's all. — Igor Stravinsky
Good composers don't borrow, they steal — Igor Stravinsky
I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography. — Pierre Boulez
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided… — Zoltan Kodaly
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the… — Maurice Ravel
Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his… — Dmitri Shostakovich

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