Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued. — Thomas Beecham
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. — Arthur Honegger
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem… — John Blacking
If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning… — Frederick Corder
To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again. — Arturo Toscanini
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now. — Neville Marriner
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itselfâ€¦Making music is actually little else than a matter… — George Gershwin
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. — George Gershwin
In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers. — Hoagy Carmichael
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he… — Roger McGuinn
I had been to SÃ£o Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already… — Charlie Byrd
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a… — Daniel Levitin
I am but an architectural composer. — Alexander Jackson Davis
Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was… — Cecilia Bartoli
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the… — Cecilia Bartoli
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to… — Cecilia Bartoli
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on… — William Christopher Handy
The present day composer refuses to die. — Edgard Varese
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I… — Giorgio Moroder

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