Composer Quotes

392 quotes by 291 authors

Three of tonights performers are members of the group Return To One, whose album Hopes and Dreams I heard for the first time a couple… — Mike Keneally
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary. — Anton Rubinstein
Thereâ€™s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesnâ€™t half impress people and they get a long way on… — Peter Maxwell Davies
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity. — Kate Smith
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our… — Khalil Gibran
I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make… — John Corigliano
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer. — Marilyn Horne
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing.… — Ernest Gold
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress. — H. L. Mencken
I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek. — Walter Cronkite
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be. — Thomas Beecham
Many composers today don't know what the human throat is. — Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer. — Julian Casablancas
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of… — Bernard Herrmann
Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing. — Elmer Bernstein
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche. — George Crumb
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical… — George Crumb
Composers are not all good conductors. — Anton Seidl
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm,… — Alban Berg
If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today. — Randy Newman

Who Wrote These Composer Quotes

291 authors contributed a total of 392 Composer Quotes, led by these top contributors: